South Secession
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Even before Lincoln was elected as president the South already knew what Lincoln stood for (Lincoln/Douglas debates helped spread Lincoln’s ideas across America). They knew that as soon as he took office he was going to stop the spread of slavery, which would cause slavery to end at some point, but there were a few other reasons that the South was worried about their future. One reason was the growing sectionalism between the North and the South. The North wanted tariffs, and their economy was based on industry. While the South hated tariffs and their economy was based on farming. So when he did take office the South had to do something before Lincoln decided to stop slavery once and for all, so they took the opportunity to leave the North and seceded. Not three months after Lincoln took office seven states had seceded and created the Confederacy. Each state held a convention which deciding whether or not to stay in the Union or form the Confederacy. Eventually Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida all seceded. Yet, they did not all secede at the same time. Lincoln decided to try and bring the Southern states back by continuing to supply the military base's. Half the states had already seceded, but when someone fired a gun at Fort Sumter, the rest of the South seceded and the fighting of the Civil War began.