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because we no longer wanted to be part of the union, where the southern states were not considered soverign and the union states did not believe in states' rights like the south did
By war, as it happened.
They wanted to end slavery in the us and get the southern states back into the union
The Southern states wanted to keep their slaves, and they were worried that President Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the slaves, so many of the southern states left the union to try and keep their slaves.
They did not want Lincoln as their president because he wanted to end slavery.