After Lincoln's election the first seven states left the Union, beginning with South Carolina. Why did those states secede? At that time it was not war, but a Constitutional crisis as those states declared they were forming the Confederate States of America. The first shots were fired at Fort Sumter. What happened here at this fort which still flew the United States flag? It was after this that war began.

Is the idea of containment relevant to american foreign and policy today why or why not

The 1884 amendment added onto the chinese exclusion act included what additional stipulation? the law would apply to ethnic chinese regardless of which asian country they originated from. the law would provide newly arrived chinese immigrants with land in the oklahoma territory. the law would establish all chinese americans as permanent aliens and deny them citizenship. the law would prohibit chinese immigrants from reentering the united states once they exited.

Two gymnastics teams are intense rivals. the first team has started recruiting new gymnasts from different cities and even foreign countires in an effort to build a stronger team. after learning this, the secondteam begins its own recruitment campaign to find better gymnasts. over a period of months, each team recruits dozens of players, each time trying to find a better recruit than its rivals most recent addition. which idea from the cold war is most similar to this scenario