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On the issue of secession most Northerners agreed that?
Demands for states' rights were dangerous to the union
Either northerners or southerners believed that secession would not lead to war?
Southeners had the stongest idea that secession would lead to war. Truthfully they were asking for it. Northeners strove for peace and tried to preserve the Union.
How did Northerners react to secession?
The attitudes toward secession varied greatly between northern and southern states. The north was attempting to keep the country unified, while the south continued to threaten with its ideas of secession, wanting to be a separate nation.
Supporters of secession claimed that secession was legal because?
the nation was founded on the principle of consent of the governed.
Term used for people who opposed secession?
A term used for people who opposed secession of the states were called conservatives. The people that supported secession were called secessionists.
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