SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
TENSION OVER SLAVERY IN THE 1850S
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many other states followed without President Buchanan stopping them.
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many other states followed but met fierce resistance from President Buchanan.
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other states held conventions but decided not to secede.
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other Southern states fought back against South Carolina.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of six more states-Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas–and the threat of secession by four more-Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America.
Detailed explanation-2: -In his annual message to Congress, President James Buchanan repudiated any state’s right to secede but blamed the South Carolina secession movement on the “long-continued and intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery.” Buchanan tried diplomacy to keep South Carolina from seceding.
Detailed explanation-3: -The secession of South Carolina precipitated the outbreak of the American Civil War in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861.
Detailed explanation-4: -Confederate States of America, also called Confederacy, in the American Civil War, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865.
Detailed explanation-5: -In this presidential year of sectional division when the dramatic caning of Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate by a southern member of Congress, Buchanan made known his view that the Union was in danger and that only by adhering to the United States Constitution could it be saved.