Which event caused south carolina and the rest of the southern states to secede from the u. s.?
select the best answer from the choices provided.
the u. s. army refusing to surrender fort sumter
the election of abraham lincoln as president
the split between southern democrats and democrats
the promise of stephen douglas to support popular sovereignty

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i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years