Congress was passing laws too favourable to the North.
The Supreme Court had declared that slavery was protected by the Constitution.
Confederates believed that slavery was a God-given arrangement of man and master.
"Copperhead" was a term given to Northern people who sympathized with the south and the southern states' right to secede from the Union.
The Confederate States of America.
Those were known as the Border States.
border states
The Crittenden Compromise was the name given to the attempt in 1860 to get Southern states to stay in the Union.
The Crittenden Compromise was the name given to the attempt in 1860 to get Southern states to stay in the Union.
The Crittenden Compromise was the name given to the attempt in 1860 to get Southern states to stay in the Union.
The Crittenden Compromise was the name given to the attempt in 1860 to get Southern states to stay in the Union.
The Crittenden Compromise was the name given to the attempt in 1860 to get Southern states to stay in the Union.
One possible solution would have been to permit the southern states to secede. The constitution is vague on this point, giving a procedure to add states but not to eliminate them. However, the constitution clearly states that all rights and powers not delegated to the Federal government are kept by the states. Since the Federal government wasn't given the ability to remove states from the union, one interpretation was that the states really did have the right to secede.
It was called the Confederate States of America.
The Confederacy, The Rebel States, Dixieland.