Text-Dependent Questions
ns: For the following questions, choose the best answer or respond in complete sentences.
C.
PART A: Which TWO of the following best identify the central ideas of this text
A. The South seceded because it feared that Lincoln would abolish slavery.
B.
South Carolina seceded because southern states felt Lincoln had not won the
southern election and was not their true leader.
The South seceded because South Carolina was crucial to the slave economy
and without its support, other southern states would fail economically.
D. Lincoln successfully baited South Carolina into being the first to lead an
offensive military attack.
Lincoln's plan to make South Carolina the war aggressors helped him keep other
states from seceding.
F.
The Battle of Fort Sumter was insignificant because there were no major losses.