What were some reasons for secession?

Answer 1

South Carolina stated their reason for secession was that there were unequal tariff laws targeting them and that they had the right to nullify or not follow the tariff. Because South Carolina was a state on the coast there were import and export restrictions and theyhad to pay taxes for it. Other reasons for secession was that the government was unconstitutional and things along the lines of that. Read Hamilton's and Jefferson's "manufactures" talks about whether or not to get into manufacturing in America. Hamilton is for it but Jefferson is against it. Look into the Missouri compromise, compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska act, and South Carolina's ordinance of nullification.

Answer 2

Southern secession is a complicated issue, but here are a few of the main reasons it happened:

-Lincoln's election: Lincoln was seen by many Southerners as too progressive. Though he did not make any efforts to end slavery early on, he did things to ensure that slavery did not spread into new states and territories. This is considered by many to be the final straw in the South's decision to seceed.

-Taxes and tariffs: Back in Jackson's presidency, South Carolina almost seceeded because of what they deemed to be unfair taxes and tariffs placed on them in what became known as the "Nullification Crisis." Resentment was carried over from this time to the 1861 secession.

-American Expansion: With each new state that entered into the union, the slavery debate was renewed, but no lasting consensus was ever reached.

-Pop-culture: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and others all incite anti-slavery sentiment and thus, strong Southern reaction.

-Slave Revolts: From Denmark Vesey, up through Nat Turner, The Amistad, and John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid, slave revolts and uprisings were a clear sign to the South that their "peculiar institution" was falling apart.

Answer 3

While reasons varied from state to state in the Confederacy, several main factors stood out. The question of slavery was paramount. The southern economy was built on free and forced labor, therefore northern abolitionist cries both frightened and angered slaveholders. They believed abolitionists were also determined to incite violence and insurrection among slaves, who clearly outnumbered them by a large percentage. They were particularly troubled by Lincolnâ??s election since they believed he was an abolitionist. They believed in the concept of statesâ?? rights which held that if the union was not doing what it could to protect the rights of its citizens, states had the rights to reject that government and establish one that does.