2. All the following contributed to the regional tensions which ultimately prompted seven southern states to declare their indep
endence from the United States, EXCEPT: a. Lincoln’s campaign platform and inaugural address promising to abolish slavery
b. Disputes over tariffs and Lincoln’s campaign platform and inaugural address promise to impose another tariff
c. Expanding federal authority even as the rural South felt it had limited authority and sway in federal elections and national politics.
d. The legal struggle over the status of the enslaved convinced many northern abolitionists that abolition would only come by empowering the enslaved to rise up and liberate themselves
Explanation:
The difference between northerners and southerners originated in the development process of each of these regions. While the south prospered at the expense of slave labor and the exportation of raw materials to Europe, the north favored wage labor and the articulation of powerful trade.
These different orientations eventually strengthened a confrontation that first manifested itself in the nation's fiscal, agrarian, and labor policies. Northern interest was diametrically opposed to what Southern political representatives saw as necessary for the development of their economy. The union that once turned northerners and southerners into children of the same nation seemed to fail by a way that did not seem to offer a compromise.
Millions of farmers defaulted on their debts, placing tremendous pressure on the banking system. Between 1920 and 1929, more than 5,000 of the country's 30,000 banks failed. ... A poor distribution of income compounded the country's economic problems
