Those were all in the Deep South. They were as follows: South Carolina Florida Georgia Texas Mississippi Alabama Louisiana The other four were: Arkansas Tenessee Kentucky Virginia
The immediate trigger was the election of Lincoln as the first president from the newly-formed Republican party, which favoured tariffs on imported goods (which the South needed most), and did not want to allow any more slave-states.
The election of Lincoln caused the southern states to hold their own independent election. This was done in opposition of Abraham Lincoln being the president of the United States.
he was planning to end slavery so pro-slavery states started seceding from the union.
The election of Abraham Lincoln.
As soon as the result was in, South Carolina seceded from the United States.
One by one, the seceded from the union and formed the Confederate States on America.
Nobody really welcomed the civil war... There were things that led up to it like the slavery issue and Lincolns election. The main thing was Lincolns electoin because states in the south started to secced from the union.
Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate.
The states that left the union.
The disaffected southern states began talking about succession, and South Carolina seceded in December, a mere month after Lincoln's election, before he was even inaugurated.
Abraham Lincolns reputation was an honest man though the south succeeded from the union because of his election to form the Confederate states of America
a balance between free and slave states.
slaves in confederate states to be free
Those were all in the Deep South. They were as follows: South Carolina Florida Georgia Texas Mississippi Alabama Louisiana The other four were: Arkansas Tenessee Kentucky Virginia
Slavery and the secession of the Southern States
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