Buchanan’s message to Congress also angered members of his own cabinet. On December 8, 1860, Howell Cobb, the secretary of the treasury, a native of Georgia, told Buchanan he could no longer work for him.
A week later, Buchanan’s Secretary of State, Lewis Cass, a native of Michigan, also resigned, but for a very different reason. Cass felt that Buchanan was not doing enough to prevent the secession of southern states.
One of the things that contributed to the end of the peaceful relationship between the Jamestown colonists and the Powhatans was "<span>D) the leadership of John Smith," since Smith was a controversial figure whom the Natives did not trust. </span>