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Jefferson Davis
John C. Breckenridge
separating from the southern states to go on your own.
Well slavery was a big part of the southern secession.
The Southern states wanted to keep their slaves, and they were worried that President Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the slaves, so many of the southern states left the union to try and keep their slaves.
The biggest point of disagreement between the Northern and Southern states after the Civil War was secession. The Southern states did not accept the fact that secession goes against the constitution.
It is secession
They saw it as treason.
They saw it as treason.
Jefferson Davis
Slavery and the secession of the Southern States
Southern fear of losing liberty and power.