How Was the Secession Movement in South Carolina Different from Secession

question 28

Multiple Choice

How was the secession movement in South Carolina different from secession in other Southern states?

• A) The South Carolina state convention voted unanimously to leave the Union.
• B) South Carolina did not leave the Union until after war broke out with the North.
• C) South Carolina's decision to secede was opposed by the planter elite of the low country.
• D) Yeoman farmers living in South Carolina's up-country opposed secession and, instead, joined the Union as a free state.

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