the even that touched off the process of secession for the majority of southern states was?

Answer 1

The election of a Republican to the Presidency. It happened
to be Lincoln, but it would have been the same no matter who the candidate. The idea seceding if a "Black Republican" EVER won first came up during the 1856 election campaign... so by 1860 threats of doing so were widespread.

This explains the secession of the first SEVEN of the Confederates states from December 1860 to February 1861 (South Carolina , Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,Texas)--all states of the "Deep South".. The other four (Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee) only voted for secession after Fort Sumter and Lincoln's subsequent call up of troops.

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Perhaps the best evidence that this was indeed the reason these states used is their own legal declarations --

The page listed below includes the official statements of reason from four of the first seven to secede. Note how all of these. Here, for instance, is the central portion of South Carolina's statement, which explains Lincoln's election as the culmination of a long attack on Southern rights (all having to do with slavery, please note!):

"We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States.

*Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution;

*they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery;

*they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States.

*They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.

"For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until it has now secured to its aid the power of the common Government. Observing the forms of the Constitution, a sectional party has found within that Article establishing the Executive Department, the means of subverting the Constitution itself. A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.

"This sectional combination for the submersion of the Constitution, has been aided in some of the States by elevating to citizenship, persons who, by the supreme law of the land, are incapable of becoming citizens; and their votes have been used to inaugurate a new policy, hostile to the South, and destructive of its beliefs and safety.

"On the 4th day of March next, this party will take possession of the Government. It has announced that the South shall be excluded from the common territory, that the judicial tribunals shall be made sectional, and that a war must be waged against slavery until it shall cease throughout the United States.

"The guaranties of the Constitution will then no longer exist; the equal rights of the States will be lost. The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy.

"Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the irritation, and all hope of remedy is rendered vain, by the fact that public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the sanction of more erroneous religious belief."

http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/reasons.html

Answer 2

The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Lincoln and the Republican party opposed the extension of slavery into any newly formed states but did not support outright abolition at this point but the Southern radicals would have none of it.
Convinced that there was abolition was the true goal of the Republicans, South Carolina passed an ordinance of secession followed eventually by the 10 other slave states.

Answer 3

Open your history book and look it up. If you don't do your own homework, you will not have the information inside your head when you take your LSATs, and you will not get into a good college. You will waste all your student loans on a second rate school and wind up with a BA, driving a taxi for a living, divorced twice and paying child support on the brats your upstairs neighbor planted while you were working third shift, because you don't make enough to pay for the DNA test, and all because you were too lazy or too stupid to do your own homework. Naturally, this is all conjecture. You are probably a very nice little blond.
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Answer 4

Nope. in spite of the fact that if there have been a technique for secession--and there replaced into none!--the form wherein it replaced into accomplished replaced into seditious, treason, and an act of conflict, to boot to being unlawful. in case you % to fill in a third reason, possibly you could desire to upload, "They have been stupid sufficient to think of they might wreck out with it", yet leaving any united states of america with the aid of secession has in maximum cases led to violence and conflict. Bombarding citadel Sumter wasn't a actual extraordinary thank you to announce their displeasure. Lincoln himself spoke of that, had they worked at it for a decade or so, some technique for leaving the union might've been worked out. however the south, as time-honored, enable the loudmouthed hotheads prevail. And it meant they have been complete formerly they even started out.