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the questions below refer to lee's letter on secession.

1) according to lee's letter, the greatest disaster the country could face would be

a. the dissolution of the union
c. our loss of honor
b. a state of anarchy
d. government by lincoln

2) from what you know of the causes of the civil war, by what “acts of the north” might southerners, including lee, have been aggrieved?

a. the union’s policy regarding which states shall be slaveholding states
b. the union’s policy regulating how much slaves should cost
c. lincoln’s emancipation proclamation
d. the union’s granting to african americans the right to vote

3) lee tells his son that he will only raise his sword in —

a. revolution
b. anarchy
c. civil war
d. defense

4) lee wrote this letter just before beginning his tenure as general during the war.

a. revolutionary
b. mexican-american
c. civil
d. french and indian