South Carolina was voting to secede at the same time that Crittenden was pushing a compromise to settle the slavery question.
They thought they should be able to have slaves is one reason.
South wanted to keep slaves, north didn't want slavery to continue
South Carolina was voting to secede
There was slavery in the north for the same reason there was slavery in the south, that is to work at labourous jobs.
South Carolina was the first state to secede in October of 1860. The South seceded because of slavery issues & constitutional issues.
Pro-slavery people seceded. South Carolina was the first state to secede in 1860.
To secede and to keep slavery.
South Carolina seceded from the Union primarily due to their belief in states' rights and the protection of slavery as an institution.
Because the south still wanted slavery/
South Carolina was voting to secede at the same time that Crittenden was pushing a compromise to settle the slavery question.
The South was concerned how their way of life would be if Lincoln ended slavery. They couldn't imagine a society without slavery
The south believed that President Lincoln was an abolitionist. They were afraid that Lincoln would outlaw slavery and seceded in anticipation of slavery being outlawed.
It caused the south to secede in order to keep their slavery alive .
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north was against slavery while south supported it, also South wanted to secede from the union and become there own country.
The South wanted to secede from the union, but the North wanted to stay as one country. The North wanted to abolish slavery but the South wanted to keep slavery.