South's Secession
Secession is the action from withdrawing formally from a membership, federation, or body. Secession is usually a political term referring to the south's separation from the north in 1860. Eventually, eleven southern states ended up leaving the Union to join the confederation.
The southerners were already thinking that the federal government was too powerful, and when Abraham Lincoln was elected, it acted as the last straw for the south. The south felt the government had too much power and were trying to control southern lifestyles and traditions. The only thing the north was really after was to abolish slavery. The south felt that to keep their precious slaves, they must fight the north in a civil war or leave the United States. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, and this inspired other southern states to leave the Union as well. Their were ten other main states to secede from the Union: Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Delegates from each of these states-- except Texas-- met in Montgomery, Alabama to elect Jefferson Davis as president of their newly found Confederate States of America-- The Confederacy. A final attempt-- proposed by Senator James Henry Crittenden-- was presented to Congress meant to extend territory lines for slave states. This seemed unfair to most Republicans, so the proposition was a failure. Henceforth, the north was deemed the Union and the south the Confederacy. Union soldiers had been remaining in forts on Confederate territory. When the Union soldiers refused to leave, Confederates shots cannons at the fort on April 12, 1861. This was the beginning of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln claimed to fight to keep southern states a part of the United States and to end slavery/discrimination.
The southerners were already thinking that the federal government was too powerful, and when Abraham Lincoln was elected, it acted as the last straw for the south. The south felt the government had too much power and were trying to control southern lifestyles and traditions. The only thing the north was really after was to abolish slavery. The south felt that to keep their precious slaves, they must fight the north in a civil war or leave the United States. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, and this inspired other southern states to leave the Union as well. Their were ten other main states to secede from the Union: Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Delegates from each of these states-- except Texas-- met in Montgomery, Alabama to elect Jefferson Davis as president of their newly found Confederate States of America-- The Confederacy. A final attempt-- proposed by Senator James Henry Crittenden-- was presented to Congress meant to extend territory lines for slave states. This seemed unfair to most Republicans, so the proposition was a failure. Henceforth, the north was deemed the Union and the south the Confederacy. Union soldiers had been remaining in forts on Confederate territory. When the Union soldiers refused to leave, Confederates shots cannons at the fort on April 12, 1861. This was the beginning of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln claimed to fight to keep southern states a part of the United States and to end slavery/discrimination.