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Social Studies, 05.02.2021 20:10 Giabear23

Read the excerpt from Jefferson Davis’s speech in which he resigned from the Senate. A state finding herself in the condition in which Mississippi has judged she is, in which her safety requires that she should provide for the maintenance of her rights out of the Union, surrenders all the benefits . . . deprives herself of the advantages . . . severs all the ties of affection . . . which have bound her to the Union . . . taking upon herself every burden, she claims to be exempt from any power to execute the laws of the United States within her limits.

–Speech on retiring from the Senate, Jefferson Davis, January 21, 1861

According to Davis, why did Mississippi secede from the Union?

The people of Mississippi believed that they needed to separate from the Union to maintain their rights.
The people of Mississippi opposed slavery and feared that the Union would preserve it.
The people of Mississippi claimed that the Union no longer held the state in its favor.
The people of Mississippi believed that being part of the Union would be a burden.

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