Secession

while the Confederate states are not justified in breaking the law, breaking the Constitution, and attacking the Union. If a state like Texas began to seriously consider leaving the United States I would consider moving out of the state because secession is illegal and Texas would break the law. All fifty states are "one nation, indivisible." Trying to leave the United States would be pointless. If Texas tries to secede, other American states would try to do the same thing, and this would not be…

about they were furious. Not one of the southern states voted for Lincoln because they feared the republicans would abolish slavery. The south felt that they did not have any representation in government, and thought that the only way out of it was secession. They believed that because they joined the Union voluntarily, they could leave whenever they wanted…

Since the Union’s effort to stay together and the struggle of the Southern state’s secession were the beginning of a stage of changes for slaves. As a consequence of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln declared Emancipation Proclamation which gave freedom to slaves and with time the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment gave African Americans the rights of every U.S citizen. While the plantation owners in the upper south were kind, let slaves work and have wages to earn money to buy their freedom and…

There were a great number of motivations, which contributed to each individual soldiers reasoning behind enlisting in either the Union, or Confederate armies in 1861. Common motivations that I found in For Cause and Comrades included duty, honor, religion, race, peers, family, and most importantly a sense of nationalism. While reading McPherson’s text these factors were so strongly described by the soldiers that they transcended the individual’s desire for safety and home and led these men to…

From my studies in this class, it is clear that the north and the south developed different politics, economics and culture. These differences become increasingly deep seeded and entrenched as time went on. These caused friction on several issues like states rights versus federal power, taxes and other cultural issues. While there are several reasons for the war those stems from any number of these differences; we will focus our attentions on the few that were central to the conflict as sighted…

“It’s true that there was more to the secession crisis that followed President Lincoln’s election in 1860, and the war that followed that, than just the issue of slavery or its expansion into the west.”(Mataconis, 2013). In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president with only Northern electoral…

a never ending cycle of un-payable debt and debtors prisons. A factor that further compounded this problem was that the laws were never committed to writing, leaving the plebeians unsure if they were getting a fair deal. As a result of the first secession of the plebeians, the patricians were forced to cancel all debts of those who were insolvent (Morey, 1901). It is possible this could be the first ever form of bankruptcy…

slavery dependency, and its socioeconomic differnces with the more capitalist North. Genovese ties together these points by emphasizing how slavery was a way of life for southerners, so when threated by the expanding urban industry resulted in secession. While one would assume the slave economy of the south to be capitalist , it was only a mode of production. Capitalism by definition is more about how much you make, and less about how. For the southern planters the slave economy was about the…

Why Did The South Lose The Civil War? The primary reason why the South lost the Civil War was because of their insistence upon retaining democratic liberties during wartime. The Union’s victory was then achieved because of their ability to suppress certain liberties for the greater good of the people. For instance, the Southern soldiers were disobedient and overconfident because the little guy had been able to achieve amazing victories in previous wars. However, the South lacked the leadership…

However, despite this seemingly simplistic answer, the South’s secession would prove to be caused by their opposition of abolitionism and overall ingrained belief and dependence on white supremacy. Southerner’s saw their superiority over the entire black race as a god given right, as stated by Stephen Hale, “…the white…