Why Did The South Led Up To The Civil War

The original 13 colonies in North America seceded from British rule and formed their own country, the United States of America. It was okay for the original 13 colonies to break away from the ruling power, but, for whatever reason, not okay for the South to leave the Union. I believe that the South had the constitutional right to leave the union and the North should have let them leave peacefully because they felt that their rights were being violated. Leaving the Union, they became the Confederate States of America. Both the North and South focused on their own political interests. The South believed that their rights were being violated with tariffs that helped the North but hindered the South. The South felt that as long as there was a balance between Northern and Southern-slave states, that there would be equal representation and neither one could control the Senate; however, the government threw out the 36, 30 line and said states had a right to choose to be either slave or free states. With this the South felt that if more states chose to be free, that the North would ultimately have more
power than them and that it would hinder their interests. There had been many attempts for peaceful resolutions, but with a raid in Virginia, led by John Brown, the South’s theory of Northern conspiracy to end slavery was reaffirmed.
The South had announced their plan to leave the Union if Abraham Lincoln, a republican, was elected president. Abraham Lincoln did not want the spread of slavery to continue, he thought that it would discontinue in slave states on its own. When he was elected as president, the South fully believed that it was the North’s plan to abolish slavery, take away their rights to govern themselves, and to ruin their economy. That was the last straw with Southerners, South Carolina was the first to secede from the Union, followed by Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana. The other slave states, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee, joined the Confederate States of
America. The argument begins when they finally leave the Union, is it constitutional to secede? There is nothing in the constitution that says it is illegal for a state to leave the Union peacefully and democratically. The 10th Amendment states “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Meaning that a state has the right to keep “sovereignty, independence, freedom” not entrusted of the United States.