Why Would The Southern States Secede

Why would the southern states secede but not any other states? There were three main reasons that included issues of slavery, states’ rights, and other grievances like Lincoln’s election. Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia were five out of the eleven states that wrote a “Declaration of Causes”, which explained why they seceded. Slavery was one of the more important causes of secession of the southern states. “The South with great unanimity declared her purpose to resist the principle of prohibition to the last extremity” (Council on Foreign Relations, n.d.). Slavery was mainly thought of as being a sinful thing to the northern states but on the other hand, the south needed it because they needed people to tend to the