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Why Should The Southern States Secede?

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From November 1860 to May 1861 we have had 11 of our Southern states secede from the United States of America. They threatened to secede if our current president Abraham Lincoln was elected into office.

The reason all 11 states seceded is because they believe that the government was becoming too strong, and they didn’t want them to tell them how they could live and how they couldn’t. In other words they didn’t want the government to tell them if they could have slaves and if they couldn’t. The Southerners felt that if they stayed with the United states that the Northern states would begin to control them.

South Carolina was the first state to secede from the United States. After they seceded they thought of seceding again from the confederate states. The group that wanted to secede was called the Third Palmetto Republic. They wanted to become an independant nation. …show more content…

They elected their first president Jefferson Davis on November 6, 1861. Before he became the confederate president he was a planter, politician, and soldier. He graduated from West point military academy in 1828. He is now considered a traitor and will be charged for treason when we catch him.

As we continue the talk about war with the seceding states we can only hope no other states secede. Hopefuly we do not have to go to war over this and the seceding states will return to the United states

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