It was a challenge to the integrity of the USA and the sovereignty of the Washington government.
It was bound to provoke a reaction.
Other Southern states followed South Carolina's lead in secession and ultimately this led to the skirmish at Ft. Sumtner and the Civil War.
South Carolina
tensions increased between the north and south causing small wars leading up to secession and the civil war
Both sides believed that war was imminent. The build up began well before South Carolina seceded and precipitated the attack on Fort Sumter. Both sides were prepared for the consequences of secession.
Because the North saw it as treason, that would also lead to the loss of the cotton revenues.
Other Southern states followed South Carolina's lead in secession and ultimately this led to the skirmish at Ft. Sumtner and the Civil War.
South Carolina
South Carolina and it lead to the Civil War
tensions increased between the north and south causing small wars leading up to secession and the civil war
Both sides believed that war was imminent. The build up began well before South Carolina seceded and precipitated the attack on Fort Sumter. Both sides were prepared for the consequences of secession.
Because the North saw it as treason, that would also lead to the loss of the cotton revenues.
The North and Souths increasing conflict with slavery was a huge factor. The first battle of the Civil War was the battle of Fort Sumpter in South Carolina.
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America. ______________ But he did not lead the south into the Civil War he led them DURING the civil war.
The secession of the various Southern states (following South Carolina's lead) was triggered by Lincoln's rejection of the final compromise, because it would have allowed some extension of slavery. The actual combat was triggered by the firing of Confederate artillery at the Union garrison on the island of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour.
The so-called Nullification Crisis of 1830 involved the US Constitutional power of the federal government to impose tariffs. South Carolina passed legislation declaring that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional. While the matter ended with the threat of President Andrew Jackson to use the US military to end South Carolina's wayward ideas, clearly that state was not about to do what it did in December of 1860. Old wounds may not completely heal, however, and Southern sentiment on secession was always present.Taken by itself, South Carolina in 1830, was perhaps equally as bad as various ideas about secession had surfaced in New England at times when it disagreed with federal war policies, apart from the US Civil War. And, in 1863, it should be noted, the state of Indiana threatened to sever relations with New England over the Emancipation Proclamation.
Preceding the civil war, a tariff on goods from the south was placed, named by the South as the Tariff of Abominations. The South, particularly South Carolina, then declared that these taxes were unconstitutional, and as such did not apply to them. This was one of a number of incidents that would lead to C
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