what was the reason that Carolina Seceded from the union? was it all over slavery?

Answer 1

Basically b/c they wanted to have state sovreignity and b/cv, indeed, they thought the north was trying to rid of slavery by their way of life- free labor and industrialization and stuff.

Answer 2

North Carolina and South Carolina were both slave states, and both seceded from the Union. Slavery was the key issue that drove those two states and nine others to secede. The United States was expanding westward, and Southern states whose economies were based on agricultural slave labor feared that Western territories would join the Union as free states and send anti-slavery Senators and Representatives to Congress, thereby diminishing the political power of pro-slavery forces.

Answer 3

I don´t know the answer but might have an idea that could help to get further on with the question: South Carolina wanted to leave the union not only at the beginning of the war between the states / civil war but also another time long before that (don´t remember the year, sorry). Perhaps the motives were stated more clearly in that different earlier situation?

Answer 4

The short answer? Yes.

The long answer? Economic measures, such as tariffs (which were cited by Carolina legislators as a reason for secession), were put in place as an attempt to balance out the power held by the slavers in the U.S. Since the First Revolution, the slavers dominated the country and put into place various laws that gave them economic advantages over merchants, bankers and manufacturers. Slavery was not really economically viable any more after 1820 or so, so these laws were designed to force capitalists and other classes to subsidize the slaveowners and their slave-based economy.

Northern non-slave states, together with southern areas where slavers did not control the economy, held an overwhelming majority of the population of the country, but politically the slavers dominated anyway. They had a stranglehold on the Supreme Court, a virtual veto power over who held the presidency, and strong influence in the House and Senate due to seniority.

When new, non-slaver controlled states came into the Union from the West, they got new Senate seats and presidential electoral college votes. As the populations of the non-slave states grew, they got new congressional seats. The slavers knew their political stranglehold on the nation was slipping away, and that the tariff laws were just the beginning.

When it looked like a non-slaver (NOT necessarily hostile to slavery, but definitely pro-business rather than pro-planter) would be elected president, the slavers tried threats to maintain their dominance. "If Lincoln is elected, we will secede." Well, he was, and they did.

And then they proceeded to lose the war that they provoked, the Second Revolution against their dictatorship over the country.

That war was NOT just "North vs. South" as we are told in our schoolbooks. Besides the 200,000 black Union soldiers who fought, who were mostly from the South, almost 120,000 *white* Southerners fought in the Union Army.

Since the rebel army never numbered more than 900,000, this means that one out of every four Southerners who fought in the Civil War wore BLUE.

There were regiments in the Union Army from every southern state except South Carolina, and many South Carolinians wore blue in units from other states. There were six regiments in the Union Army from Alabama alone. Check out this website on the brave men, white & black, who were in one of those regiments, the 1st Alabama Cavalry http://www.1stalabamacavalryusv.com/

The western counties of Virginia seceded from the "confederacy" and entered the Union as the separate state of West Virginia. Pro-Union guerrillas fought behind the lines all over the South, including in Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia.

The Civil War was a class war. Modern businessmen fought the slaveowners for control of the country. Their army, consisting of workers, small businessmen, and farmers, faced an army of the rural poor, whom the fake aristocrat planters had hoodwinked into fighting for them. Most Southerners were poor and owned no slaves. As one pro-Union Southerner put it, the slaver rebellion was "A rich man's war and a poor man's fight."

The nature of the struggle was why slavery was an integral part of the war, even though planters talked about "states rights" and the businessmen's politicians talked about "preserving the Union."

It's not the subjective feelings of those involved that count, but the material reality. People can talk about "regional pride" all they want - the South would be in much worse shape if the slavers had succeeded in setting up their fake "nation."

MANY Southerners knew it, and supported the Union. It can be argued that they MAY have provided the margin of victory.

So without them, we might ALL have lost.

Answer 5

Yes, when caroliona was one state, the northern half was against slavery and the south was for it, i dont know the exact year or anything but they split with the missouri act, where anyone north of the south missori border was free but if someone in the north found a slave they were suppose to bring them back.

Answer 6

mainly they were sick of the nort unfairly representing them, and rightfully so!