the tax on importing goods
Secession. The civil war was caused by the secesion of the Southern states.
In 1861, the southern delegates form the confederate states of America.
In 1861, eleven southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. This action was primarily driven by disputes over states' rights and the institution of slavery. The Confederate States aimed to establish an independent nation separate from the United States, leading to the outbreak of the Civil War.
The southern US states form the Confederate States of America
Confederation
The Civil War was fought because a group of states in the southern US wanted to split away and form a new nation that would be run the way they wanted. The 11 Southern states the broke away (or seceded) were known as the Confederate States. The Union were the remaining states within the United States that fought to keep the southern states as part of the country.
The Confederate States of America.
Prior to the Civil War, southern states seceded to form their own country; the Confederate States of America.
The Southern states formed their own country when they seceded from the United States. Their country became known as the Confederate States of America.
The US civil war was caused over two factors: 1. The southern states wanted the leave the United States and form the Confederate States Of America. And well, the Northern states didn't like this quite as much. 2. The southern states wanted to keep slavery and the northern states wanted to abolish it (come on you should know this) The war ended when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all slaves. (although it wasn't until around a hundred years later when they received full rights)
The newly-elected Republicans were not going to allow any new slave-states. So the South would always be outvoted in Congress, which would tend to pass laws that favoured the North. The South believed it had enough cotton wealth to form a separate nation.
You may be thinking of "secession"-- the verb is "to secede." During the civil war, a number of southern states decided to secede from the Union and form the Confederacy.