rnors of all theSouthern states, except Texas, that South Carolina wouldsecede in the event of Lincoln’s election and asked whatcourse the other states would follow.“As soon as it was certain that Lincoln had won, theSouth Carolina legislature summoned a specialconvention”(Oates 101). “It met in December of 1860, inCharleston, and three days later the convention unanimouslypassed an ordinance dissolving ‘the union now subsistingbetween South Carolina and other States’”(Bradford 81). Similar conventions were held by other Southern states, andsimilar ordinances were adopted. The first states tofollow South Carolina’s actions were: Mississippi, Florida,Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. In April of 1861,Lincoln called for states to send militias for nationalservice to suppress the rebellion. The upper South refusedto send their militias to restrain the seceded states. Instead they joined the lower South with the secession ofVirginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Thissecession by the South lead to the opening to the AmericanCivil War.The war over slavery was brought about by manyimportant people, who used many different ways to expresstheir points of view. Some exhibited their dissatisfactionwith slavery by debating, some by using violence, some bysuing in court, and some by writing a story. These wereall effective strikes against the South, and primary causesof the war. In conclusion, these people ultimately broughta beginning to the end of what Lincoln called, “a moral, asocial, and a political wrong”(Oates 66)....
