Because Lincoln had won the 1860 election on a ticket of no new slave-states.
Withdrawing states say they are seceding from the union.
They left the union to join the confedirety
When a state left the Union it was called secession.
Secession. Seceding. The verb is "to secede."
Confederacy. (Confederates when referring to individuals)
Secession
South Carolina declared it was seceding in December of 1960.
secede is to withdraw from your area, or union.
South Carolina succeeded in seceding first.
President Buchanan did not force seceding states to return to the Union.
why are u using this...... a lot of people are wrong but its baltimore :)
Because not a single Southern state went for Lincoln and he represented a threat to their very nature of life.