The most likely explanation is that towns, states, and voting districts in the South had <em>much </em>higher numbers of African American voters whereas there were far fewer African Americans in the North. Remember that while African Americans were elected almost immediately in the South, Jim Crow and voting laws instituted soon thereafter boxed them out completely (because white Southerners knew the number of African American voters would vastly outnumber white voters in many areas).
Answer:
The rapid influx of immigrants made it difficult for local governments to provide basic services. Federal restrictions prevented voters from influencing government decisions at the local level
Answer:
D. It created a weak federal government with no powers to impose taxes or regulate trade.
Explanation:
The inability to tax.
Making revenue completely dependent on the state legislatures.
Answer: Choice C.
They worried that Lincoln would try to end slavery in the United States.
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Explanation:
The issue of slavery was debated and fought over for many years before the election of 1860. It was only until Lincoln became president that sparked the southern states to secede, which led to the Civil War. Proof of this is found in the many Declaration of Secession documents produced by each state that left the union. This is basically a document explaining why they left the United States to form the Confederate States of America (CSA) aka the Confederacy.
In modern times, some people mistakenly claim that the Civil War wasn't over slavery but rather states' rights. This is simply false. The documents I mentioned prove that slavery was the core issue. More proof is the various states having issues with the fugitive slave act, in that the northern states didn't really adhere to the law to the level of the southern states' liking. I guess you could argue that states' rights were involved, but specifically the south fought to have the right to own slaves. In short, it's all about getting the correct context. Expanding that context, simply look at the decades preceding the war and notice all of the tension involving whether a new state was a free state vs a slave state.
