When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina
a. waited to see how other southern states would act.
b. were very upset because they would have to secede from the Union.
c. vowed to give their loyalty to Stephen Douglas.
d. rejoiced because Lincoln's election as president provided secessionist South Carolinians with the political pretext to vote in the state legislature in favor of secession.
e. accepted the democratic process and vowed to support Lincoln.
Question 2
Which of the following represented examples of resistance by African Americans to the power and influence of the white planter elite?
a. Negro spirituals
b. Adhering to the Christian belief in obedience
c. Slave religion
d. The development of an American form of Islam
e. The New York and South Carolina slave revolts
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