Senator John J. Crittenden's attempts at compromise failed because
A) southern leaders in the Senate refused to accept any limits on slavery in the territories.
B) Lincoln refused to compromise on the extension of slavery into the territories.
C) Jefferson Davis refused to accept the proposal that popular sovereignty be used to decide the slavery issue in the territories.
D) the Confederacy decided to attack a federal fort in Charleston Harbor.
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