How did the Confederate states justify secession?
1 Answer
Mar 3, 2017
They believed in state rights, and they felt that they were not getting them when they were part of the U.S.
Explanation:
The election of 1860 with Lincoln despite their widespread votes for the other candidate meant to them that they were not getting enough representation.
They also wanted to keep slavery for agriculture.
The tension between the North and South had been high for a long time, and there was a lot of regionalism, where they each sought to benefit their own region rather than the whole country.
