Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virgina, Tennessee, Kentucky
Because they regarded the Union as sacred - also they didn't want to lose the cotton revenues.
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Texas
The seceding states left the union due to issues over states' rights and slavery. Also, general differences in the people and economy (North was much more industrial than the South) led to the eventual seccesion of the South.
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No - he can not even let states leave the union if decide they want to secede.
The southern states threatened to leave the Union because of antislavery talks.
Because they regarded the Union as sacred - also they didn't want to lose the cotton revenues.
Kentucky(:
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They left the union to join the confedirety
It is secession
Most Southerners believed that states had freely been created and joined the Union and could freely leave the Union. President Lincoln and the North did not believe this.
Calhoun believed in states rights above all. He espoused the doctrine of nullification which meant that states could nullify or reject Federal Laws they did not want to obey. He also thought states had the right to leave the federal union if they wished.
Texas
The seceding states left the union due to issues over states' rights and slavery. Also, general differences in the people and economy (North was much more industrial than the South) led to the eventual seccesion of the South.