write a report of 250 words on one of the following topics. use at least two outside sources.

1. the election of 1860
2. john brown's raid on harper's ferry
3. bleeding kansas
4. the compromise of 1850
5. the lincoln-douglas debates

answer: secession

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.

explanation:

c) troops march forward in close formation against newer, more accurate weapons

the colonial period, since this was a time of mass immigration from a variety of people from europe.