The North demanded high tariffs to protect its products from competition. The election of Abraham Lincoln angered the South. Southerners rejected his position on slavery. The North supported Lincoln in his fight to end slavery. Such differences finally ignited the Civil War.
Which is the object of the verb rejected?
slavery
Southerners
Lincoln
position
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Answer:
The primary catalyst for secession was slavery, most immediately the political battle over the right of Southerners to bring slavery into western territory that had hitherto been free under the terms of the Missouri Compromise or while part of Mexico. Initially, states entering the Union had alternated between slave and free states, keeping a sectional balance in the Senate, while free states outstripped slave states in population and in the House of Representatives.[2] Another factor for secession and the formation of the Confederacy, was white Southern nationalism.[3] The primary reason for the North to reject secession was to preserve the Union, a cause based on American nationalism.[4] Most of the debate is about the first question, as to why some Southern states decided to secede.
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election without being on the ballot in ten Southern states. His victory triggered declarations of secession by seven slave states of the Deep South, whose riverfront or coastal economies were all based on cotton cultivated using slave labor. They formed the Confederate States of America after Lincoln was elected, but before he took office. Nationalists in the North and "Unionists" in the South refused to recognize the declarations of secession. No foreign government ever recognized the Confederacy. The U.S. government under President James Buchanan refused to relinquish its forts that were in territory claimed by the Confederacy. The war itself began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, a major U.S. fortress in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
Answer:
Slavery
Explanation: The direct object of a verb is the thing being acted upon.