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secede is to withdraw from your area, or union.
- the worry that the government would abolish slavery. The major event was President Lincolns election. The Southern States believed that once Lincoln was in office, he would end slavery for good.
They became a part of the union after they lost the civil war.
No he was the Commander in Chief of the Union.
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware. It was not just their status prior to the war that bothered Lincoln. They were in danger of seceding if they saw the South winning battles, and a Confederate government was actually installed in Kentucky by Braxton Bragg, though it collapsed when he took his army back to Tennessee.
Seceding from the Union??
Lincoln
South Carolina succeeded in seceding first.
Because not a single Southern state went for Lincoln and he represented a threat to their very nature of life.
secede is to withdraw from your area, or union.
Because they thought the cotton revenues would be enough to support a new nation.
President Buchanan did not force seceding states to return to the Union.
The Union itself was against Arkansas seceding.
They left the union to join the confedirety
North Carolina was the last southern state to secede from the Union. This was due to a strong Unionist faction in the state, concern for economic decline, and general fear of what the break down of the Union would mean for the country.
Jefferson Davis
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