Because most agricultural states like in the south were suffering from enormous taxation and they were losing their representation in the Senate. They knew that if Lincoln was elected they would suffer even more and so they decided they wanted their own government.
Because most agricultural states like in the south were suffering from enormous taxation and they were losing their representation in the Senate. They knew that if Lincoln was elected they would suffer even more and so they decided they wanted their own government.
Because most agricultural states like in the south were suffering from enormous taxation and they were losing their representation in the Senate. They knew that if Lincoln was elected they would suffer even more and so they decided they wanted their own government.
The president received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election.
The President received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election
The president recieved no electrocal vote from Southern states in the election
there isn't really a name for them, they are like any state but they have slavery. you could call them southern slave states or slave states, or southern states...... there is no definition for slave states that didnt secede proir to the civil war
It did secede. It was one of the original seven.
secede
The president received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election.
The President received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election
The president recieved no electrocal vote from Southern states in the election
The President received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election
The President received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election
The president received no electoral votes from southern states before the election
Abraham Lincoln
They believed that their rights, society and economy was endangered by Lincoln's election. They saw the only way to preserve themselves was to secede.
Abraham Lincoln was president when the first states began seceding. Lincoln's election was basically the final straw that made the states want to secede.
Lincoln vowed to outlaw slavery
The election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States in Nov. 1860.