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Name one alternative to secession that the slave states could have chosen?
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Do you believe that secession could have been avoided in 1860 why or why not?
no.your welcome
Why did the southern states feel secession was justified?
The United States had been formed by a voluntary joining of states apex
Do you believe the southern states had the right to secede?
At the time of the war, almost everyone did believe a state could secede. Lincoln was the real revolutionary, as he changed the deal on this issue. Since the war the idea of secession is a tainted one, because the south tried it and lost, and moreover because the south is perceived as having resorted to secession out of motivations to protect slavery. The Constitution is silent on the question of the permissibility or means of secession. But at the time the Constitution was adopted few expected it to last for very long, and thought it would eventually be replaced by something new or better, just like the Articles of Confederation which it had supplanted. Defenders of the right of secession pointed out that it had taken a voluntary act by each of the states to join the new national government under the 1788 Constitution, and this implied that a voluntary act could also get a state out of that government. (At the time the Constitution was adopted many "anti-Federalists" remained opposed to it, fearing the new national government would eventually turn into a tyranny and trample over the rights of the states. This was why they insisted on a Bill of Rights, and in particular the 9th and 10th Amendments. Those amendments don't really mean much these days, since the south lost the war). Unionists, like Grant writing in his memoirs after the war, offered a tortured argument that, well, maybe the "voluntary in, voluntary out" position was valid as applied to the original 13 states, BUT, as to states formed later, from the land claimed by those states in 1788 or bought from France, or won from Mexico, it did not apply, and since those newer states could not get out, well, then neither could the original 13 anymore. Somehow. The southern states of 1861 were not the first to talk of secession. In the 1790s Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio talked of secession. These were the only states beyond the Appalachian Mountains, and depended on the Mississippi as their outlet for trade. But Spain then controlled the mouth of the Mississippi and would not allow them to trade, and they felt the national government was not doing anything to help them. During the War of 1812, the entire war was bitterly opposed in New England, which had close ties to England. The war was only popular in the south and the west of that time. New Englanders grew rich carrying on a treasonable trade with England, without which England could not have maintained its armies in America. The New England states began to agitate for secession, but couldn't talk New York into going along with them. Nevertheless they went so far as to call a secession convention at Hartford, Connecticut in 1815. But by the time the convention could meet the war was over, and this took the wind from their sails. So people from all parts of the country believed a state had the right to secede. It was Lincoln who insisted that he had to "preserve the union". Since he succeeded in doing so at gunpoint, everyone today pretty much thoughtlessly accepts that he must have been right, or thinks a still-united America was a good thing during the world wars of the 20th century.
Did Abraham Lincoln believe that secession was legal or illegal?
No, when the first states seceded, both President Buchanan and President-Elect Lincoln announced that they could not legally do that.
What alternatives did the states in the lower south have to secession?
The only reason the South seceded was because Lincoln, who was not a Democrat, took office. If they had been reasonable, they could have given him a trial run before seceding. He did not initially intend to free the slaves but only to stop the spread of slavery.
Who believed that the states had freely joined the union and could freely leave it?
Secession
Why did southern staes fel secession was justified?
They argued that the original USA was a voluntary federation of states that could secede when they wanted.
What did Texas have in common with the other Confederate states?
Texas could and did secede from the Union with the rest of the Confederate states. Texas declared its secession from the United States in 1861 to join the Confederate States of America.
Why didn't the Union let the Southern states secede?
The people who opposed secession believed that a state could not leave the union without permission form the remaining states, which had neither been sought nor given. The people supporting secession believed that each state had the right to leave the Union without need of permission from other states.
What argument did some southerners use to justify secession?
They said the USA was formed as a voluntary group of states, and any one of them could quit when they wanted.
Was the secession of states during the civil war an example of national-state dispute?
It was a state rights issue. The question was who could determine how the federal government could tell each state what to do.
What are the 2 alternative states the space shuttle could have landed in?
New York and Florida and California.
When could president eisenhower have chosen an alternative to containment and the arms race?
In foreign policy President Eisenhower kept the containment policy in the Cold War and ended the Korean War.
Do you believe that secession could have been avoided in 1860 why or why not?
no.your welcome
If you could remove any of the 50 states which state would it be and why?
Texas. It has some (very dated) experience in being independent, they are currently actively agitating for secession, and nobody wants them anyway...
Why did the southern states feel secession was justified?
The United States had been formed by a voluntary joining of states apex
Did the Supreme Court of Canada rule in 1998 that Québec had the right of unilateral secession?
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Québec does not have the right of unilateral secession. In the Reference re Secession of Québec, the Supreme Court answered that the peoples of Québec cannot be considered an oppressed group that would have the right to such a form of secession, and further argued that Canada would be "entitled to maintain its territorial integrity under international law and to have that territorial integrity recognized by other states."The Court noted, however, that a declaration of unconstitutional secession may become a de facto secession, were other members of the international community to grant recognition to Québec as a sovereign state.false, they did not have right of secession.
