Which of the following did states in the Confederacy (Confederate States of America) NOT believe? Group of answer choices That the US government, with the election of Republican Lincoln, was threatening their Constitutional rights That enslaved people were technically property, therefore the US government could not deny slaveholder their "property" (slaves") under the 5th amendment That the war was over states rights and for their independence from the US That the states’ governments should be more powerful than the federal government That slavery should be abolished

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Which of the following did states in the Confederacy (Confederate States of America) NOT believe?
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That the US government, with the election of Republican Lincoln, was threatening their Constitutional rights
That enslaved people were technically property, therefore the US government could not deny slaveholder their "property" (slaves") under the 5th amendment
That the war was over states rights and for their independence from the US
That the states’ governments should be more powerful than the federal government
That slavery should be abolished
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