this is a question for those who know about the united states union...?

Question

Why did the southern states succeed from the union?

Answer 1

They didn't want to lose their slaves.

Answer 2

Slappy is right on BOTH his points.

Lincoln was the 1st Repubican President, and the Republicans were considered to be a party of wlid Bible thumping nuts who let religion get in the way of politics because they wanted to end slavery and the Anti-Slavery movement was lead by the Evangelical Protestants... yes Evangelical Protestants pretty much started the Republican Party and they caught flack for it from the New York newspapers even then...

The South was pretty certian that Lincoln would end slavery, in no small part because they were mostly Democrats and the Democratic party had split in the Election of 1860, so they left the Union.

The irony is that the rich white Democratic slaveholders (who pretty much ran the southern political scene) were a minority in the South. Few Southerners owned slaves (Slaves were EXPENSIVE). However the slavery/anti-slavery debate had been going on for years and the rich slaveholder politicians pretty much had everybody who counted (in the South) fired up and ready to fight on their side. (This is where the old "It's not about Slavery, it's about our RIGHTS" lie came from. It is hard to get poor white farmers to go out and die for rich people's rights to own slaves and undercut the poor white farmers economicaly.)

I say it is a lie because the Constitution of the Confederacy makes several references to the right to own slaves.

http://americancivilwar.com/documents/confederate_constitution.html

(Article IV, Section 2. (I) The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired. )

So the poor white soldiers who didn't own slaves wound up fighting and dying for the rights of the rich whites to own slaves, and those very slaves were competing against the poor southerners in the labor market.

The second Irony is that Lincoln probably couldn't have ended slavery during his term as President.

The third Irony is that there wasn't enough support in the North to free the slaves. The immigrants didn't want a lot of free blacks entering into the labor market and taking their jobs. Lincoln got support for the war by saying it was a war to keep the Union together. He didn't issue the Emancipation Proclimation till after the Battle of Antetam, and that only freed slaves in the South, where nobody cared what Lincoln said anyway.

It was the 13 Amendment that actually ended slavery, and that was passed by the Republican Congress. The Democrats were considered to be responsible for the Civil War so they did very badly when the elections of 1862 and 1864 were held in the North. (It was said "Not every Democrat was for secession, but everyone who was for secession was a Democrat", which was pretty much true.) With Congress full of Radical Evangelican Republicans the 13 Amendment sailed through and Slavery was dead.

Ironcily they never would have been that many Radical Republicans in Congress if the South hadn't tried to seceded in the first place.

Answer 3

Because the Southern states believed that the United States is a federation of individual states and the individual states freely joined the federation and could freely leave it. They didn't believe that the federal government had the right to tell individual states what to do.
Many believe that the civil war was over slavery, but that is too simplistic. Lincoln himself said: "If I could preserve the union by freeing every slave I would. If I could preserve the union by not freeing a single slave I would do that."

Answer 4

it's not "succeed." It's "secede."

They were afraid that the federal government, under lincoln, would end slavery.

Answer 5

Because they hated Lincoln, and as soon as he was elected, they seceded.

Answer 6

The cotton gin was ultimately responsible for the civil war.

King cotton.

I am telling you. It was about money and the cotton gin made it happen

http://americancivilwar.com/kids_zone/causes.html

Answer 7

well xcause of slavery