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Document 1
Secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the American Civil War, comprises the series of events that began on December 20, 1860, and extended through June 8 of the next year when eleven states in the Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the Union. The first seven seceding states of the Lower South set up a provisional government at Montgomery, Alabama. After hostilities began at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, the border states of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to Richmond, Virginia. The Union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. Twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the United States, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the Confederate States of America.

Based on Document 1 what were the dates of the secession of the south?

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Based on Document 1 where was the temporary government set up?

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Based on Document 1, put the following events in the correct chronological order

__________ secession of the lower south

__________ more permanent government set up in Richmond, VA

__________ temporary government set up in Alabama

__________ secession of the upper south

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Which states seceded?

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1. Which of the following states seceded from the union?

(1) New York (2) Pennsylvania (3) South Carolina (4) California

2. Which event caused the secession of the south?

(1) The Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford

(2) The election of Abraham Lincoln

(3) The flood of 1860

(4) The passage of the 13th Amendment