Many events contributed to several Southern states seceding from the Union in 1860. One important event was the election of Lincoln.
A term used for people who opposed secession of the states were called conservatives. The people that supported secession were called secessionists.
Eleven southern states declared their secession and formed the Confederacy.
Secession.
The Constitution provided no guidance on secession or readmission of states.
Demands for states' rights were dangerous to the union
election of president Lincoln
Well slavery was a big part of the southern secession.
Secession
The immediate conflict that sparked the Civil War in the United States was the secession of several southern states in response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860. Southern states feared that Lincoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery, would undermine their economic and political interests. The secession of these states and the subsequent attack on Fort Sumter by Confederate forces in April 1861 ultimately led to the outbreak of war.
Several things contributed to the start of the War Between the States. The most immediate cause was the South firing on Fort Sumter. The next direct cause was the secession of the southern states from the Union.
The Immediate Cause was Beauregard firing on Fort Sumter. The Intermediate Cause was the secession of the Confederate States. The Ultimate Cause was Slavery.
It triggered the secession of several southern states, starting with South Carolina.
Lincoln's rejection of the Crittenden compromise, because it would have allowed some extension of slavery.
They justified secession with the theory of states' rights.
The election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860. The South knew that he would never allow any new slave-states. So the South would always be out-voted in Congress.
An immediate result of the US Civil War was the abolition of slavery with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1865. This amendment legally ended slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States.
what were the pro slavery anti secession statesgenerally known as border states