Question

Help please!!!!!!

How did Southerners justify secession?


They were tired of all of the bickering.

They wanted to make their own laws.

They had a right to do what they wanted.

none of the above

all of the above

Answer 1

D) None of the above

Reasoning- In fact, Confederates opposed states' rights — that is, the right of Northern states not to support slavery. On Dec. 24, 1860, delegates at South Carolina's secession convention adopted a “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.”