Because pro-slavery feelings were stronger in the Deep South. In the Upper South, there was less enthusiasm for secession.
Which event caused the Southern States to secede from the Union
some southern states secede because of preisdent abrahim Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln was president when the first states began seceding. Lincoln's election was basically the final straw that made the states want to secede.
South Carolina was the first to secede in 1860
The Declaration of Independence.
The southern states were willing to secede from the Union because they believed in states' rights and wanted to preserve the institution of slavery, which they felt was threatened by the federal government.
The first state to secede was South Carolina in December 1860. The last to leave the Union was North Carolina in May 1861.
The election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States in Nov. 1860.
there isn't really a name for them, they are like any state but they have slavery. you could call them southern slave states or slave states, or southern states...... there is no definition for slave states that didnt secede proir to the civil war
Southern states threatened to secede from the Union if Abraham Lincoln was elected as president.
The Southern States seceded from 1860-1865, during the course of the Civil War.