“The Union, without a living, vital Constitution, is but a vain and empty name,”(Document 5). During the 1860-1861 the South had seceded from the Union, what led up to the secession of the states was the ongoing conflict of slavery. The North and South’s differences were growing, and during these issues, many people argued that slavery was unconstitutional, which had brought up even more issues between the North and South, and it had ultimately led to the secession of the South from the Union. Secession was the withdraw of eleven Southern states from the Union. When the states had spilt, the North had remained as the Union and the South had formed what they called, a Confederacy. The secession of the states didn’t last long when the North …show more content…
Nat Turner’s slave revolt had helped the abolitionist movement become more aggressive and had introduced many new ways that the abolitionist movement could become stronger. In the background reading, it clearly shows how Nat Turner’s rebellion had made the South worried,”Many southerners blamed Nat Turner’s slave revolt in 1831 on radical abolitionists such as David Walker, who called for violent resistance to slavery.” Nat Turner’s rebellion had given abolitionists the idea to be more aggressive with their movement to remove slavery, and this had frightened the South. The North was gaining more and more power with the abolitionist movement, and they were planning to use this power to get rid of slavery throughout the Southern states as stated in document 4,”The North is accumulating power and its means to use that power to use that power to emancipate your slaves.” The North had kept gaining power and they were planning to use it to get rid of slavery throughout the southern states. The southerners had begun to worry that the North would find a way to get rid of slavery, and they eventually seceded from the Union so they wouldn’t have to worry about having slavery taken from them. Not only was the North gaining power, but theirs views on anti slavery were becoming stronger and they had begun to be more confrontational to the South about their views on slavery. …show more content…
Slavery had started the idea of abolitionism in the North, which had continues to grow, and made the North more aggressive when dealing with slavery in the South, and it had led to many events that had killed people, and started riots within the Southern states. It had also led to the idea of popular sovereignty which had allowed people to vote for what they wanted, showing the strong split of views and had made the issues of slavery more divisive in the states. Lastly, the survival of the agricultural economy of the south was in jeopardy because of the North. All of these things were caused by sectional differences, and was why the South had felt the only way to solve the ongoing conflict between the North and South was to secede from the