All of the Following Are True Statements About Southerners in the Secession

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true statements about southerners in the secession movement EXCEPT

A) they regarded their region as a sub-nation with a distinct culture from the North.
B) the southern secessionists were inspired by worldwide impulses of nationalism.
C) they were dismayed by the political triumph of the new sectional Republican party, which seemed to threaten their "property" rights as a slaveholding minority.
D) a majority of southern secessionists believed the South had an absolute right to resume importation of slaves from Africa.
E) the development of the Underground Railroad and John Brown's raid represented two examples in secessionist southerners' minds of undue and unwarranted northern influence in southern political, economic, and social affairs.