Within two months after the election of Lincoln
a. Northerners were mobilizing for a civil war.
b. seven southern states had seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.
c. all the slaveholding states had held conventions and passed secessionist resolutions.
d. President Buchanan appealed for troops to put down the secessionist rebellion.
e. the southern states had demanded a new constitutional convention to guarantee the future of slavery.
Answer: B