-This Photograph Showing the Ruins of Columbia, South Carolina, After

question 12

Multiple Choice

-This photograph showing the ruins of Columbia, South Carolina, after Union forces set fire to it demonstrates the .

• A) dangers of a successful slave insurrection
• B) results of an unsuccessful attempt to hold peace negotiations in that city
• C) Union's desire for vengeance on South Carolina, which started the secession movement
• D) Confederacy's reluctance to defend one of its greatest strongholds

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