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.
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.
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Lincoln viewed secession as a constitutional crisis that threatened the Union, believing that states did not have the right to unilaterally withdraw from it. Conversely, Robert E. Lee recognized secession as a states' right but regarded it as an act of anarchy that undermined the nation’s unity. While both men acknowledged the concept of states' rights, their interpretations led them to fundamentally different conclusions about the legitimacy and consequences of secession.
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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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.
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He Loved Virginia, and when Virginia declared its secession, Lee chose to follow his home state.
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.
he hated it
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.
Lincolnbelieved the Southern Secession should be met with force. Lincolnthought it was illegal.