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Because they believed they had certain beliefs and they could go anywhere with them, which ended up enabling them to make the Confederacy.
Leading up to the Civil War the southern states could accurately be described as federalist.
Near the end of the Civil War, Lincoln proposed that the seceding states could re-enter the Union if 10% of the total voting population (as of 1860) swore allegience to the United States. Since black Americans could not vote in 1860, but could swear allegience in 1865, this meant that the Southern states could re-enter the Union very quickly and relatively painlessly. However, Congress was cool to the idea and with Lincoln's death, the 10% plan was abandoned. poe197
Before being readmitted to the Union, each southern state that had been part of the Confederacy had to ratify the fourteenth amendment.
In the Civil War at a convention in Montgomery, Alabama, the seven seceding states created the Confederate Constitution, a document similar to the United States Constitution, but with greater stress on the autonomy of each state. Jefferson Davis was named provisional president of the Confederacy until elections could be held.
President Lincoln stated that in his view, secession was unconstitutional. He vowed to protect Federal property and added he would enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. Lincoln did all he could to prevent and bring back to the Union secessionist states.
He was called the "do nothing president" He was also the only bachelor to be president. He could see the union about to break apart with the threat of Southern states talking about seceding but he did not know what to do about it. Perhaps there was nothing to be done but fight a Civil War.
He was called the "do nothing president" He was also the only bachelor to be president. He could see the union about to break apart with the threat of Southern states talking about seceding but he did not know what to do about it. Perhaps there was nothing to be done but fight a Civil War.
Because they believed they had certain beliefs and they could go anywhere with them, which ended up enabling them to make the Confederacy.
Prevent acts of violence against former slaves.
Leading up to the Civil War the southern states could accurately be described as federalist.
Near the end of the Civil War, Lincoln proposed that the seceding states could re-enter the Union if 10% of the total voting population (as of 1860) swore allegience to the United States. Since black Americans could not vote in 1860, but could swear allegience in 1865, this meant that the Southern states could re-enter the Union very quickly and relatively painlessly. However, Congress was cool to the idea and with Lincoln's death, the 10% plan was abandoned. poe197
fight
... abolish slavery.
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware. It was not just their status prior to the war that bothered Lincoln. They were in danger of seceding if they saw the South winning battles, and a Confederate government was actually installed in Kentucky by Braxton Bragg, though it collapsed when he took his army back to Tennessee.
Prevent acts of violence against former slaves.
The southern states agreed that congress could regulate trade between other nations and between the states. In return, the Northern states agreed that Congress could not tax exports and would not interfere with the slave trade before 1808.