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How Did President Buchanan React When Seven Southern States Seceded

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How did President Buchanan react when seven southern states seceded?


A) He denied that a state could secede, but also insisted that the federal government could not use force.
B) He sent troops to South Carolina to try to end secession, but the Union troops fired the first shot at Fort Sumter.
C) He accepted secession and began diplomacy with the Confederate states.
D) He promised the South that he would restore slavery in northern states like Massachusetts.
E) He acted as a forceful president, but this course of action did not work.

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