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     The South seceded in part out of growing awareness of its minority in the nation. The Union held twenty-three states, including four border slave states, while the Confederacy had eleven. Ignoring

Abraham Lincoln was elected as the sixteenth president of the united states in 1860. This made the southern state furious. They knew that Lincoln was against slavery and they were very fearful that he would change their entire lifestyle by abolishing slavery. He once said: “I am naturally anti-slavery, if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” This caused many southern states to secede one by one. The first state to secede was South Carolina. South Carolina was so angry by the election that they seceded before Lincoln even went into office. Then in 1861, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas all succeeded. A total of eleven states. Eventually they formed the Confederate States of America. They wanted to be recognized as an independent nation but Lincoln refused to recognize them as an independent nation. This caused a war to break out.

In the time between the election of 1860 and the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in March of 1861, a total of seven states had withdrawn from the Union for several reasons. The South first argued that the North threatened liberty, and they protested that an assertion of federal power would overturn slavery and destroy the one institution that guaranteed equality for white Americans. Along with this, the South feared that the Republican Party’s victory would set into motion the complete eradication of slavery. Their next argument was that Lincoln and Republican Congressmen ignored the Dred Scott case, showing an usurpation of power that was unconstitutional and even justified leaving the Union; the South viewed their slaves as property and believed no one could take this right. The South believed their right to secede

When Abraham Lincoln was elected, seven states starting with South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the Union and formed Confederate States of America (P.397), and soon after, four more states including: Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them (P.400). The Confederate States were mainly slave states that perceived Lincoln as a threat to the southern institution and its foundation; slavery. Although Lincoln had an anti-slavery position, which means that he was opposed the idea that slavery spreads into new territories, not an abolitionist, the Confederate States dreaded that they might lose their power in their territories (P.397). President Lincoln rejected the right of

Eleven states in the south came to the conclusion that secession was the best way to escape the oppressive government. All of these southern states were justified as they felt that they were not being properly represented in the government and were seen as a joke. They were not taken seriously and they felt that since their votes didn’t matter anyway that their place in the union also didn’t matter. A large reason for the south’s secession revolves around the idea of slavery. All the south wanted was for slavery to spread and be legal across the north and once they discovered that this opening was closing they began the thoughts of secession. These thoughts of the south seceding from the union worried the government so they did what they could to make the south happy without allowing slavery to actually expand. This came in the form of many events including the Missiouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law, and Washington D.C. remaining a slave territory. This kept the south at bay for a while until the events of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the election of 1860 opened their eyes to see that in reality their votes didn’t matter. This ultimately led to their justified secession from the union.

Southern states seceded from the Union because of slavery, political power, and social and economic differences. Slavery was not good. Slavery has a big debate, people could go on all day about the pros and cons of slavery. Southern states had way less than the North. The population made a huge differences in the

Another issue was secession. South Carolina Seceded from the Union because in their beliefs the Union was not right and they did not trust them to protect their rights. By February 1861 the confederacy was established. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia had joined south Carolina.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union. Within six months, ten other states would follow. These eleven states would form the Confederacy. Southern secession was the first step leading to the American Civil War. This war was the bloodiest war in American history, killing roughly 600,000 American soldiers. The Civil War would have never happened if it wasn’t for the secession of the Southern states. Because of Lincoln’s election, States’ rights, economic issues, and slavery, eleven Confederate states seceded from the Union.

The Southern justification for a unilateral right to secede cited the doctrine of states' rights, which had been debated before with the 1798 Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, the Hartford Convention during the War of 1812, and the 1832 Nullification Crisis with regard to tariffs.

This quote from Lincoln’s very famous “House Divided” speech thoroughly accentuated his opinion on slavery. He depicted how the nation would either become all for slavery or all for freedom. The states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas seceded when Lincoln was sworn in president in January 1861, while Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia seceded when the war started in April 1861 (Confederate States of America history.com). The states of Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Nevada, and Oregon remained with the original United States,(Civil War Facts nps.gov) they were then suitably dubbed the “Union” in light of their unity towards the freedom of slaves and the abolition of slavery. Lincoln was advocated into this position as president, and he had to make many compromises to end the upcoming battle.

Several months after Abraham Lincoln was elected, multiple states seceded from the Union. South Carolina secedes, followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas (History 1). South Carolina seceded primarily because of the election of Abraham Lincoln by the Black Republican Party which had campaigned on the elimination of slavery within the United States. This applied to both the states where slavery already had existed and, any future states entering the Union. The right of the states to determine their own destiny was also a significant factor. The rest of the South followed suit with South Carolina, based on the

On April 12th, 1861, the American Civil War officially began, and on May 9th, 1865, it ended. Therefore, almost the entire time Lincoln served as President, the Civil War was happening. Shortly after Lincolns’ inauguration, the United States was on the outbreak of Civil War and some of the southern states were trying to secede from the Union. Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican to be the President of the United States of America. The states were trying to secede from the Union because they were opposed to Lincoln becoming president. They did not want him to be president because he was opposed to slavery, which the southern states were in support of. Therefore, when Abraham Lincoln became the president in March, 1861, the southern states began to take secession from the Union into consideration. Lincoln tried to soothe and calm the South by telling them that he was not going to interfere with slavery where it was already in existence in his inauguration speech. Lincoln said “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.” South

With being opposed to slavery gained the nation's top office, several southern states began to consider the prospect of secession.The southern states didn't want Lincoln to win the election and to be established as president in March of 1861. His policies weren’t agreed with them. They formed a new country called Confederacy as they started leaving the country first by South Carolina then six more states followed. This all happened after Lincoln won the election but before he took the oath of office.

The states that seceded from the Union were all Southern states that supported the slavery. Their economy depended mostly on agriculture, and the main labor consisted of slavery. One of the first controversies between the North and the South was about the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act which was a law that required the Northern states to assist with returning the fugitive slaves back to their owners (Keene, Cornell, & O’Donnell, 2013.) The Northerners did not react well to this law, and some abolitionist even broke the law and assisted the slaves to pass the borders into Canada. This controversy started the conflict of interests between North and South and for a decade they view each other system as a threat. The Northern states had a larger

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln felt that a country that was divided by slavery would not be able to work properly. Before 1862, the southern states, also known as the rebellious states, had seceded from the United States because they did not want to risk a president that would abolish slavery. President Lincoln was able to win the election even without the 12 state votes of slave states because he won by electoral votes. Abraham Lincoln did not like slavery, and this caused southern states to not want to return to the U.S. The States knew that Lincoln was well known for his strong voice against slavery and determination to end slavery. There had been a war in the late 1840s called the Mexican-American War where the southern states fought against Mexico in order to take present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, western Colorado, and New Mexico land. The reason behind