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What prompted the remaining US slave states to vote to secede from the Union?
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∙ 7y ago
The election of Lincoln is what prompted them to secede. When he was elected the southern states thought he would pass a federal law making slavery illegal, so they separated before he could do it. To Lincoln it became a States rights issue and he was determined to keep the union together.
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∙ 7y ago
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∙ 7y agoAfter US President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to end the armed rebellion of the Southern slave states, other slave states felt threatened. They knew Lincoln and the Republican Party was anti-slavery. The four states of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas, sought the protection of the new Confederacy.
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What prompted south to secede from the union?
The election of Abraham Lincoln
Which states did not secede from the union?
The states that DID NOT secede from the Union was Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. These four states did not secede from the Union because They were Border states, meaning they were between the Union and the Confederacy.
What border did not secede in the civil war?
Borders do not secede but states do. Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were border states that did not secede in the union.
Did floroida get secede to the union?
Florida was one of the first states to secede from the Union.
Does the 14th amendment forbid states to secede from the union?
yes. the 14th amendment does not forbid the states to secede from the union.
Why did the Southern Land Speculators want to secede from the union?
Which event caused the Southern States to secede from the Union
Who were the first confederate states to secede from the union?
South Carolina was the first to secede.
What states want to secede from the union?
Texas
Which state was the first of eleven states to secede from the union?
South Carolina was the first to secede.
What were the states who did not secede from the United States called?
the union or the united states of America
What two states did not secede from the Union?
dont a care
How did individual states secede from the Union in 1861?
yess
