Question 5 • CCPS Georgia Studies 8 (45.00900) YL IC
Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 alarmed many Southern leaders, who feared his opposition to slavery’s expansion. Several Southern states then seceded and formed the Confederacy. In April 1861, Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter, and the Union troops there surrendered; this attack began the fighting of the Civil War. Andrew Jackson’s election and Worcester v. Georgia happened decades earlier and were not immediate causes.
AI-written and checked against the verified answer.