Justified In the creation of the United States of America, like anything when created, it unveils loopholes or kinks with time. That happened to be the case with United States Constitution; no law stated that a state could not leave the union and start another country or group of states, which happened to have a tremendous effect on the young and growing United States of America. In the time leading up to the Civil War the North kept raising taxes on imports which benefited them greatly, however, the South was struggling to stay alive cause they were not getting any money back from the products they sold. People may claim that the South did not have the rights to secede. As well, opposers claim the South broke many laws in forming the
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For example, the South gave the North raw materials for them to turn into manufactured goods. Then the North in turn sent back some of the manufactured goods to the South, but also keeping some of the manufactured products to sell. Consequently, the South had to pay import taxes on their own goods. The South was had to not only give the North raw materials but then had to buy it for twice as much as they sold it to the North because of import taxes. This created a lot of conflict because the people of North were getting paid twice as much and were not paying any where near the amount of import tax as the South was, in fact the South paid for more than eighty-five percent of the railroads that were laid by the federal government. The South saw that the people up North were bathing in their own money, and the South were having to eat their own crops because they could not afford any of the manufactured goods that were coming from the North. This all goes back to the American Revolution, the whole reason we went to war with Britain is because they were imposing taxes without asking their colonies, making them pay for goods that would not be beneficial to the colonies. If the North and South would have communicated about what each state was trying accomplish in their economy the Civil War would not have happen when it did. In fact, the South was then forced to leave because …show more content…
During the nineteenth century, the constitution was taken very literally from the aspect that if it was not in the Constitution is was not illegal and could be done. At first when the Constitution was created there was ten amendments which were the Bill of Rights and today there are twenty-seven amendments, which means that in almost 250 years seventeen laws or unalienable rights have been added that were fought for to be added to the Constitution of The United States of America. After President Lincoln was elected in 1860 the South knew that he was going to abolish slavery and were sick of the way they were being treated by the Northern States the South decide to do something to slow down the abolishment of slavery as much as they could. The first state to secede from the United States of America was South Carolina making the first state to ever secede from the Union, and it was not easy for South Carolina because they were influenced by Northern and Southern lifestyles making it hard for them to decide to secede. There secession had a big impact on the Confederate states but it also had a huge
For example, the South gave the North raw materials for them to turn into manufactured goods. Then the North in turn sent back some of the manufactured goods to the South, but also keeping some of the manufactured products to sell. Consequently, the South had to pay import taxes on their own goods. The South was had to not only give the North raw materials but then had to buy it for twice as much as they sold it to the North because of import taxes. This created a lot of conflict because the people of North were getting paid twice as much and were not paying any where near the amount of import tax as the South was, in fact the South paid for more than eighty-five percent of the railroads that were laid by the federal government. The South saw that the people up North were bathing in their own money, and the South were having to eat their own crops because they could not afford any of the manufactured goods that were coming from the North. This all goes back to the American Revolution, the whole reason we went to war with Britain is because they were imposing taxes without asking their colonies, making them pay for goods that would not be beneficial to the colonies. If the North and South would have communicated about what each state was trying accomplish in their economy the Civil War would not have happen when it did. In fact, the South was then forced to leave because …show more content…
During the nineteenth century, the constitution was taken very literally from the aspect that if it was not in the Constitution is was not illegal and could be done. At first when the Constitution was created there was ten amendments which were the Bill of Rights and today there are twenty-seven amendments, which means that in almost 250 years seventeen laws or unalienable rights have been added that were fought for to be added to the Constitution of The United States of America. After President Lincoln was elected in 1860 the South knew that he was going to abolish slavery and were sick of the way they were being treated by the Northern States the South decide to do something to slow down the abolishment of slavery as much as they could. The first state to secede from the United States of America was South Carolina making the first state to ever secede from the Union, and it was not easy for South Carolina because they were influenced by Northern and Southern lifestyles making it hard for them to decide to secede. There secession had a big impact on the Confederate states but it also had a huge