Secession

War could be easily marked as the as most catastrophic event to ever take place in the South. The nature of the Civil War being likely served as the contribution to this secession of Southern political leaders. In the end, the secession ended up being a disaster for the South anyway. But, what drove these politicians to secession? This would be the Planter class, or the class of individuals who owned plantations. While Abraham Lincoln was serving as the president of the United States of…

fact that secession had become such a burning issue in the country with the democrats and republicans having sharply contrasting views on it, people had hoped President Buchanan would give a clear way forward on the matter (Quist & Birkner, 2013). However, he denied the fact that states had the right to secede but also said that it was not in the federal government’s power to prevent secession. This was a grievous mistake for President Buchanan since he did not stop the calls for secession by…

I do not have a particular stance for or against Calexit, but I am open to considering the movement. I both agree and disagree with Dave Marin’s opinion that California has a better opportunity to start towards the path of secession. Our Constitution, by his explanation, seems to dictate that we can secede, but I see a possibility for another civil war. If this situation comes to a civil war, I do not see California winning by a landslide, unless the state receives aid from Washington and Oregon…

the tariff was in causing the war stems from the Nullification Crisis, which was South Carolina's attempt to nullify a tariff and lasted from 1828 to 1832. The tariff was low after 1846, and the tariff issue faded into the background by 1860 when secession began. States'…

1. What was the primary function of the commissioners? Who appointed the first commissioners and why? The primary function of the commissioners was to convince the other slave states to join them in secession. “… five states of the lower South-Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana-appointed commissioners to other slave states and instructed them to spread the secessionist message across the entire region” (17) “Mississippi and Alabama commissioners were appointed by the…

As for a provision for secession, it is recommended that this provision is included to give the people, the citizens, to decide. If the states, Majoritarian, Minoritarian, Enclavian, and Dispersian, voluntarily admitted into the union, there has to be a way for them to voluntarily leave. However, as they once decided to join together, to leave they should all decide. Secession in Agonista should be regulated under the future constitution of Agonistan…

In Thomas J. DiLorenzo’s book, The Real Lincoln, is about who the common American thinks Lincoln is, to who Lincoln really was. The Real Lincoln gives just that. “Anyone who embarks on a study of Abraham Lincoln…must first come to terms with the Lincoln myth. The effort to penetrate the crust of legend that surrounds Lincoln…is both a formidable and intimidating task. Lincoln, it seems, requires special considerations that are denied it other figures…”(Johannsen) page 1. The introduction in…

slavery continued to be an issue. The breakup of the Union in 1861 was significantly due to the argument over slavery expansion West, the Northern threat to Southern economy and slightly due to other factors such as the North’s views on Southern secession.…

yet conciliatory: there would be no conflict unless the South provoked it. Secession, the president declared, was wholly impractical because ‘physically speaking, we cannot separate’” (Cohen & Kennedy 421). The quote above sheds light upon how secession was ultimately deemed “unproductive” by Lincoln. This, in turn, reveals the president’s conspicuous desire to bar the further exacerbation of the looming issue of secession. In brief, two major standpoints comprise Lincoln’s stand on his first…

owned huge plantations in South Carolina where he was born, along the Savannah River (“James Henry Hammond”PBS.org). He became a congressman in 1835, and Governor of South Carolina in 1842. while in both of these positions, he showed his ideas of secession of the southern states (“James Henry Hammond” PBS.org). Hammonds moved on to become a U.S. senator. In the year 1858, he gave a speech titled ¨Cotton is King.¨ This…