the constituition said that the states were joined forever.
The Constitution said that the states were joined forever.
The U.S. government, particularly under President Abraham Lincoln, firmly opposed secession during the Civil War era. Lincoln believed that the Union was perpetual and that states did not have the right to unilaterally withdraw from it. His administration viewed secession as both illegal and a rebellion against federal authority, leading to military action against the Confederate states to preserve the Union.
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New England's population was very adverse towards the war and threatened secession.
Officials of the US government may not accept a gift or position with a foreign government without the consent of the Congress.
As a private citizen prior the the start of the US Civil War, George B. McClellan watched the political events surrounding the sectionalism between the North and the South. He had followed the course of the secession crisis closely and hoped that a compromise could be reached. He was not optimistic about this and the onset of the war was not a surprise to him. He was an opponent of secession.
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He was Wisconsin's senator
Depends. If the governor engaged in talks of secession, then yes.
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