South Secession

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South Secession

• By Lillian Summer Keller

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• In January, 1861, The South Seceded from the
  Union. Abraham Lincoln had been elected as
  President. He was a strong opponent of slavery.
• After calling a state convention, the delegates
  voted to remove the state of South Carolina from
  the Union. The secession of South Carolina was
  then followed by six more states, including
  Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi,
  Louisiana, and Texas. Eventually Eleven States
  formed the Confederate States of America.
• At a convention in Montgomery, Alabama, the seven
  seceding states created the Confederate
  Constitution. Jefferson Davis, was named the
  provisional President of the Confederacy, till
  elections could be held.

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Who Seceded When

• Mississippi- January 9, 1861
• Florida- January 10, 1861
• South Carolina- December 20, 1860
• Alabama- January 11, 1861
• Georgia- January 19, 1861
• Louisiana- January 26, 1861
• Texas- February 1, 1861

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After Lincoln Called For Troops

• Virginia- April 17, 1861
• Arkansas- May 6 1861
• North Carolina- May 20, 1861
• Tennessee- June 8, 1861

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Reasons Why

• The seeds of secession had been sown early in
  American history quite literally with the
  fundamental differences in agriculture and
  resultant adoption of slavery in the South. From
  early days, the thirteen states had grown up
  separately, and each had their own culture and
  beliefs, which were often incompatible with those
  held in other states. The geographical and
  cultural differences between north and south
  would manifest themselves at regular and alarming
  intervals throughout the hundred years following
  the drafting of the constitution. Tension reached
  a peak during the 1850s, over the right to hold
  slaves in new territories. The Wilmot Proviso of
  1846, roused bitter hostilities, and vehement
  debate turned to physical violence during the
  period of 'Bleeding Kansas'. The election of
  Lincoln, who the South perceived to be an
  abolitionist, in 1860 was the final straw, and
  the secession of seven Southern states followed
  soon after.

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Reasons Why

•  Secession was based on the idea of state rights
  (or "states rights," a variant that came into use
  after the Civil War). This exalted the powers of
  the individual states as opposed to those of the
  Federal government. It generally rested on the
  theory of state sovereignty-- that in the United
  States the ultimate source of political authority
  lay in the separate states. Associated with the
  principle of state rights was a sense of state
  loyalty that could prevail over a feeling of
  national patriotism. Before the war, the
  principle found expression in different ways at
  different times, in the North as well as in the
  South. During the war it reappeared in the
  Confederacy.        HAMILTONIANS AND
  JEFFERSONIANS. The Constitution could be
  interpreted in opposite ways.

• States rights was another cause of tension
  between the two.

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Slavery

• Slaves have served in capacities as diverse as
  concubines, warriors, servants, craft workers,
  and tutors. In the Americas, however, slavery
  emerged as a system of forced labor designed for
  the production of staple crops. Depending on
  location, these crops included sugar, tobacco,
  coffee, and cotton in the southern United
  States, by far the most important staples were
  tobacco and cotton.

• Close to two million slaves were brought to the
  American South from Africa and the West Indies
  during the centuries of the Atlantic slave trade.
  
• In the antebellum South, slavery provided the
  economic foundation that supported the dominant
  planter ruling class.

• of forced labor designed for the production of
  staple crops. Depending on location, these crops
  included sugar, tobacco, coffee, and cotton in
  the southern United States, by far the most
  important staples were tobacco and cotton.

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Slavery

• Slaves have served in capacities as diverse as
  concubines, warriors, servants, craft workers,
  and tutors. In the Americas, however, slavery
  emerged as a system of forced labor designed for
  the production of staple crops. Depending on
  location, these crops included sugar, tobacco,
  coffee, and cotton in the southern United
  States, by far the most important staples were
  tobacco and cotton.
• Slavery caused many problems between the north
  and south. Some in the north thought that slavery
  was evil and that it must be gotten rid of. The
  north saw it as a way of the south having more
  power and a slowing of the industrial economy.
  The norths negative view towards slavery and the
  souths dependence apon them, caused a big rift
  between north and south. With the addition of so
  many new states after the war with Mexico, the
  disagreement about slavery could no longer be
  avoided.

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Differences

• The north valued education much more than the
  south, which caused a cultural differences. The
  norths lack of good soil, made them more reliant
  on industry than farming, which caused even more
  tension with the south(since it affected how the
  north saw slavery and the economy)
• The souths population was spread out and
  neighbors werent as close as they were in the
  south.
• Many people were home schooled in the south.
• Religion and thinking was very different in the
  south than in the north.
• All of these cultural and geographical
  differences of the north and south created
  tensions between the two. Which soon grew to the
  point of war, and south secession.

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Wilmot Proviso

• The Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events
  leading to the Civil War, would have
  banned slavery in any territory to be acquired
  from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future,
  including the area later known as the Mexican
  Cession, but which some proponents construed to
  also include the disputed lands in south Texas
  and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande.1
• Congressman David Wilmot first introduced the
  Proviso in the United States House of
  Representatives on August 8, 1846 as a rider on a
  2 million appropriations bill intended for the
  final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American
  War. (In fact this was only three months into
  the two-year war.) It passed the House but failed
  in the Senate, where the South had greater
  representation. It was reintroduced in February
  1847 and again passed the House and failed in the
  Senate. In 1848, an attempt to make it part of
  the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo also failed.
  Sectional conflict over slavery in the Southwest
  continued up to the Compromise of 1850.

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Election of Lincoln

• This highly angered the south, who felt that his
  election was a treat to their way of life, their
  political power, and their states rights.
• His winning of election was the final straw.

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So...

• The south secession was caused by the
  overwhelming rift between north and south. Issues
  over slavery and states rights. The rift finally
  got too big to ignore.

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After secession

• The U.S. went into a civil war.
• On Mar. 2, 1867, Congress enacted the
  Reconstruction Act, which, supplemented later by
  three related acts, divided the South (except
  Tennessee) into five military districts in which
  the authority of the army commander was supreme.
• Things like the reconstruction acts were ways the
  country got reunited again.

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sources

• http//www.civilwarhome.com/statesrights.htm
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmot_Proviso

http//thomaslegion.net/orderofsecessionofsouthern
states.html




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sources cont.

• http//wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_the_South_secede
  _from_the_Union
• http//www.paralumun.com/warsouthsecedes.htm