Which statement best describes the u. s. constitution? a. it is a document designed to set up a new u. s. government, written with enlightenment ideology, including montesquieu’s 3 branches and separation of power. b. it is a document, shared by the u. s. and france, also known as the declaration of the rights of man. c. it is a failed document created directly after the revolution that created a “loose binding of friendship between the states.” d. it is a series of short stories by h. p. lovecraft describing the “old ones.”

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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