Question

This document was written

A) following the approval of the Emancipation Proclamation.
B) when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.
C) when the Confederate States declared war on the United States.
D) following the election of Abraham Lincoln as the U.S. President.

Answer 1

D. South Carolina was the first to declare itself "a separate and independent State." They had not liked the things the Lincoln had campaigned for during his run to become President.