They didn't like the look of the new Republican Party that was threatening to ban the spread of slavery into the West.
They felt that the cotton revenues made them rich enough to break away and form their own nation, trading with cotton-hungry nations in Europe.
Mainly for state's rights
Confederate States of America
The Southern States seceded from 1860-1865, during the course of the Civil War.
Florida and South Carolina were the only Southern states to secede in 1860. The other 9 seceded in 1861.
Eleven slave states seceded. This included Texas, Louisiana,, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Virginia seceded, then West Virginia seceded from Virginia and rejoined the Union.
The Southern states seceded from the Union shortly after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. This is because they knew he would be in opposition to slavery and supported the idea that the nation's rights should outweigh state's rights. In order to protect their way of life and what (who) they considered their property, they seceded and formed the Confederate States of America (CSA).
The Southern states seceded from December of 1860 to April of 1861.
no, the south hated him. His election was one reason the southern states seceded.
The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
as they seceded from the Union the Southern states took over of the federal forts inside their borders
who had been recently elected as president of the United States when the southern states seceded
Eleven
seceded from the union
it leaves the union
Eleven
Eleven
The Confederate States of America, or the C.S.A.
Confederate States of America