Why did 7 states secede from the Union, even though Lincoln said Southerners were allowed to keep slavery?
A. Southerners refused to be a part of a country in which the president personally opposed slavery
B. If slavery were not allowed to spread, eventually more free states would join the Union and congress could
then vote to abolish slavery
C. The Southerners distrusted Lincoln, they believed that while he was president he would push congress to
pass a law that abolished slavery
D. They wanted to form a country that was more powerful than the United States of America