Why Did The South Want To Secede Dbq

Would it be good to have a country split without any arguments or a country as a whole full of arguments? In the beginning of 1860, The South wanted to secede from the Union, but the Union didn’t like that idea. Months later, they began a war. There were many reasons why the South wanted to secede but the main reasons were because of slavery disagreements, sectionalism, and political arguments. The southern states seceded from the Union because of sectionalism, political differences, and slavery disagreements.

First, Southern states seceded from the Union because of sectionalism. The South had less factories, less soldiers, not a lot of people and not a lot of railroad tracks (Document 2). Which means that the North had bigger and better things than the South, the North had more people to fight back and the North had more railroads meaning more trades for the North. The South needed to seceded from the Union because of sectionalism. Secondly, Southern states seceded from the Union because of political disagreements. “Many Southerners favored secession as part of the idea that the states have rights and powers which the federal government cannot legally deny.The supporters of states’ rights held that the national government was a league of independent states….”(Document 5). This means that the Southerners seceded from the Union because they wanted their rights to leave the Union

The Compromise of 1850 states that,”...there were equal numbers of slave and free states in the United States.” But, they totally ignored the Missouri Compromise and the Missouri and the Compromise of 1850 clashed and ran over each other(Document 1). This shows that it was not a good idea to bring in another compromise that would collide with another compromise. This also shows that the compromises were not fair to each other. The South needed to seceded from the Union because of slavery