Why did southerners argue states' rights were violated by abolition of slavery? a) they believed all states should be slave states. b) abolition would cause states to pay higher taxes. c) abolition violated states' rights to choose what their laws should be. d) they argued abolition would cause freed slaves to take over their states. eliminate

branches of government. to ensure a separation of powers, the u.s. federal government is made up of three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. the legislative branch is made up of the house and senate, known collectively as the congress.

the pogroms became known as kristallnacht, the "night of shattered glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets. the morning after the pogroms 30,000 german jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being jewish and sent to concentration camps, where hundreds of them perished.