Transcript South Secession

South Secession
By Lillian Summer Keller
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.
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
After Lincoln Called For
Troops
Virginia- April 17, 1861
Arkansas- May 6 1861
North Carolina- May 20, 1861
Tennessee- June 8, 1861
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.
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 right’s was another cause of
tension between the two.
Reasons Why
Slavery
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.
hese 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
north’s negative view towards slavery and the south’s
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.
Differences
The north valued education much more than the south, which
caused a cultural differences. The north’s 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 south’s population was spread out and neighbors weren’t
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.
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 MexicanAmerican 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.
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
state’s rights.
His winning of election was the final
straw.
So...
The south secession was caused by the
overwhelming rift between north and
south. Issues over slavery and state’s
rights. The rift finally got too big to
ignore.
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.
sources
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http://www.civilwarhome.com/statesrights.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmot_Proviso
http://thomaslegion.net/orderofsecessionofsouthernstates.html
sources cont.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_the
_South_secede_from_the_Union
http://www.paralumun.com/warsouthsec
edes.htm