They disagreed with the stated policy of the federal government.
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What did the southerners threaten with
The southerners hired a assassin to assassinate president Lincoln.
Georgia wanted to secede from the Union because they believed Abraham's Lincolns election, and republican party's were strongly and aggressively anti-slavery.
because they want the people enslaved in the south to be free...
South Carolina threatened to secede in 1833 with the Nullification Act.