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This 4-page paper focuses on the relevant issues that eventually led to the secession of the Southern states from the Union in the 19th century, as well as the development of the Confederate states and a Confederate constitution. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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up of the Confederacy involved slavery. At least, this is what the history books teach in most elementary schools. However, while slavery was certainly one of the main reasons why
the southern states split from the northern states during the middle of the 19th century, it was not, by far, the only one or even the main one. There were
many issues that had to do with formation of the Confederacy and secession, among them a quarrel over states rights, industrial development and erosion of a way of life that
people were reluctant to let see slip away. For one thing, the issue of slavery involved more than simply the idea that
the North was telling southern plantation owners they couldnt "own" human beings. Slaves were necessary to agriculture, which was the Souths main production and product. But government interference in what
the Southern states wanted was considered going too far by many of the Southern politicians. But it was South Carolina, the first state to secede, that panicked and left the
union because of the combination of John Browns raid of Harpers Ferry in 1859, fear of emancipation of slaves and distrust and dislike of the possibility of a Republican getting
into the White House (Brooks, 2003). The Brown raid took place in South Carolina, a state where the slave population was higher than the white population (Brooks, 2003). Further more,
South Carolinians thought the raid was a plot from Northern abolitionists -- and part of a greater scheme in which lay more dangers for South Carolina (Brooks, 2003). But this
was no paranoid collective that tended to scream that the only way to safety was through secessionism. Rather, it was the facts that the raiders on Harpers Ferry had a
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