South Carolina Secession and Civil War

The American Civil War was fought over few reasons, but slavery is thought to be the major reason for the war and even today, slavery is "front and center" as the reason for the war. Ultimately, the American Civil War was the result of economic, social, and political differences between the Northern States and the Southern States. As we all know, the South’s economy was driven by cotton grow, which needed a great work force, in this case slaves. Some of the Northern states had abolished slavery, others agreed on the gradual emancipation after the American Revolutionary War, and their economy was industrial based. Another major issue was the strong idea of Nullification in the Southern states especially in South Carolina which eventually made this state, later followed by others, to move towards secession, and creating the Confederate States of America (Confederacy) in 1861. Additionally, after the Mexican War, there was a dispute between free-states and slave states over the new territory, though the issue was temporally fixed with the Compromise of 1850. Moreover, the abolitionist movement grew rapidly after Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” novel, this alarmed southerners greatly. The last spark was ignited when President Lincoln, who supported the abolitionist movement, was elected in 1860, thus, created South Carolina to issue its Declaration of Independence, generating the Confederacy, and later led to the American Civil War. Do I think southern states like South Carolina should celebrate the anniversary of secession? No, Southern States should not organize any festivity set up as a celebration of secession because the result of the secession was the separation of the Union before and during the Civil War. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of the people that were killed during a non-sense war, soldiers who died of starvation and diseases, including the ones who were abused, and left undernourished to death at Andersonville prison in