When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina
A) waited to see how other southern states would act.
B) were very upset because they would have to secede from the Union.
C) vowed to give their loyalty to Stephen Douglas.
D) rejoiced because Lincoln's election as president provided secessionist South Carolinians with the political pretext to vote in the state legislature in favor of secession.
E) accepted the democratic process and vowed to support Lincoln.
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