Following lincoln's election, seven southern states seceded from the union and formed the confederate states of america. shortly thereafter, four more states joined the secession. one reason these states seceded from the union was that they

Feared Lincoln would abolish slavery. (For the study island users)

the answers is b.   environments.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts