The election of Lincoln as president.
A term used for people who opposed secession of the states were called conservatives. The people that supported secession were called secessionists.
Robert e. Lee
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You probably mean Robert E. Lee. He was a regular US officer, whom Lincoln wanted to appoint as an army commander and likely future General-in-Chief. Lee said he would have to wait to see whether his home-state of Virginia voted Confederate - which he hoped it wouldn't, as he disapproved of secession. However, the vote went that way, and Lee resigned to join the Confederates.
That slavery was a bad thing, and secession was a bad thing.
because southerners thought Abraham Lincoln was going to remove slavery
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Kevin Gleefure
He was right.
The issues that led to the secession had been festering for a long time, but it was the election of Abraham Lincoln that precipitated the secession.
Actually. it was Robert E Lee. Lincoln had no problem using force to hold the Union together. Her did see it as the last resort but he knew all along it would eventually come to force. Robert E. Lee did not want secession to happen but if it did felt is was wrong for force to be used to prevent it.
He Loved Virginia, and when Virginia declared its secession, Lee chose to follow his home state.
he hated it
Lincolnbelieved the Southern Secession should be met with force. Lincolnthought it was illegal.
Both presidents Lincoln and Buchanan believed that secession was unconstitutional. They did differ, however, on one important point. Buchanan, unlike Lincoln, however, did not believe that the federal government had the constitutional power to resist secession through the use of force.
As illegal and a violation of the US Constitution.