Which statement best describes the caste system?
a. social and religious classes developed after aryans settled on the ganges plain and later incorporated into hindu beliefs
b. a teaching of siddhartha gautama based on his realization that the only way to avoid suffering is to follow the eightfold noble path
c. an integral part of hinduism that teaches that the gods will allow people who pray to the wheel of dharma to change their social standing
d. the hindu belief that life is a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, which ends only when a person reaches nirvana

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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