Secede means to leave or withdraw from the union. During the mid 1850s the south wanted to secede from the union. Southern states wanted to secede from the union because President Lincoln was elected, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published, and because slavery was the basis of their community. First the south wanted to leave the union because President Lincoln was elected. In document 5 it says “Free Speech, Free Homes, Free Territory”. This is saying that everyone should be free therefore slavery should be abolished. This scared the south because with him as president they believed that he would try to abolish slavery now that he had the power to. Since the South didn’t want to lose slavery they left the union. Secondly the south wanted to leave the union because Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published. In document 4 it states “She wrote this book to show that slavery was evil and that the Fugitive Slave Law was unjust. This would convince or show how evil and wrong slavery is and more people would want to abolish slavery. If they didn’t secede they would lose slavery. So to stop people in the South to be convinced that slavery is wrong the South left the union. …show more content…
In document 3 it says “ The South thus quickly established a rural way of life supported by an agricultural economy based on slave labor.” So if the South lost slavery their economy would fall and the south would be very very poor. So therefore the Southern states left the union because they didn’t want to be poor. In conclusion the Southern states wanted to secede from the union because President Lincoln was elected, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published, and because slavery was the basis of their community. They were feared that Lincoln would abolish slavery. They didn’t want Southerners to be convinced that slavery is evil. Also they didn’t want to be
Secession is the means to withdraw one’s self from a federal union or other affiliated group. The southern secession was the separation of 11 states moving from the Union to the Confederate States Popular sovereignty helped the Union and the Confederates compromise by allowing the right to vote for or against slavery knowing that the popular vote would be to be against slavery, aiding in the final decision. The motive to use the
The Confederate states seceded because they believed that their rights as American citizens were being mistreated by the
On one end of the spectrum was the secessionists, called “fire-eaters” who passionately believed that South Carolina should secede from the Union no matter what. Unionists were on the other side of the spectrum where they were unhappy with the compromise, and they think it is best to stay with the Union. In the middle you will find cooperationists who felt that the secession was good thing as long as other southern states would join them. Then they started to have state conventions and southern conventions to decide what to do in the response of the Compromise of 1850. South Carolina was very enthusiastic about these conventions, while other states did not take it as a big deal.
South Carolina was the first to withdraw from the Union. The state of South Carolina did not want to be part of nation that had no control. Then other southern states such as, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, and Louisiana left the Union. As a result they established the Confederate States of America, which was an independent southern slave republic. Lower and South and Upper South had to go to war to decide whether what side to pick.
The North didn 't like earning less money than the South, so they taxed the South. Anytime a Southerner wanted to export their goods, they had a pay a large tariff. The Southerners felt they were being treated like colonies with no real say in anything. So they did what had to be done, they seceded. Here 's why the south was justified...
Shortly after the attack, four more southern states joined the Confederacy. The Confederacy seceded from the Union in 1860 and established their own Constitution. The South was an agrarian society, depending on crops during this time. They believed slaves were needed to help maintain
South Carolina was not agreeing with the plans Abraham Lincoln would bring up, such things as equality and civil right for African American citizen were not in mind and South Carolina was strongly opposing that. Following this the state of South Carolina was trying to become part of the Confederacy, which happened on February 4, 1861. Being the first state to do so they were not unfollowed, because shortly after the states of Mississippi, Florida, Texas and Georgia
He believed that slaves were their happiest being slaves. He also believed that free labor workers in the north do little work and they use people. This document tells us what southerners thought and what they believed. We can also see how crazy these thoughts are. There are plenty of more reasons and things that could 've led to the American Civil war.
The South feared to lose the wealth and power that slavery provided since the formation of the United
The South wanted to secede from the Union, but Mr. Jackson would force the military on them if they decided to do so. Congress then passed the Force Bill and the Compromise Tariff to help settle down the South; Jackson ended up preventing the South from leaving the Union. When Andrew Jackson
The ultimate cause of secession was sectional conflict generated by clashing economic interests within the Union and rival constitutional theories about the nature of republican government. The Union fractured between slave states and free states. The fracture was caused by the so-called “great truth” of the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal.” It had since
The Secession The idea of the South’s secession from the union was by no means new in 1860. In his book,The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Davis Jefferson quotes a letter by C. C. Clay, in which Clay describes that the decision for the South to secede in the event of Lincoln winning the election had already been made. He writes: “Before the election of Lincoln, all the Southern States, excepting one or two, had pledged themselves to separate from the Union upon the triumph of a sectional party in the Presidential election, by acts or resolutions of their Legislatures, resolves of both Democratic and Whig State Conventions, and of primary assemblies of the people—in every way in which they could commit themselves to any future
Secession had been considered for years earlier but officially took place when Abraham Lincoln was elected as the President of the United States in 1860. Lincoln’s main aim was to preserve the Union but the South was upset because Lincoln was against slavery and in the end cherished abolishing slavery. South Carolina almost instantly seceded from the Union after the presidential election and built the Confederate States of America at which point other southern states soon linked. However, there were many causes leading up to South Carolina seceding from the Union. Each state was likely a set of duties they were to fulfill to continue their existence as sovereign states.
Southerners believed that the U.S. was made for and by the white race, and that the Africans had no part of their establishment. They believed that slaves were justified by the “..experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the almighty creator.” (Document B.) They did not want to give up their businesses or their beliefs too soon therefore, they
With the decision of Abraham Lincoln to the administration, Southerners dreaded their reality disintegrating. They knew Lincoln's abolitionist subjection position, and they knew their present method for living was destined if servitude was prohibited. The South chose to withdraw, and the Civil War ended up