On December 20, 1860 South Carolina became the first state so secede from the union, a promise that the state vowed to keep, shall Lincoln become elected. Mi

ssissippi, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia soon followed suit, creating what was to be known as The Confederate States of America. These states all seceded on the basis of States Rights, not simply because of the issues on slavery. Southern Planter Aristocrats were frustrated with how their government was being ran, specifically the recent influx of Northern dominated influence in the House, and the views of President Lincoln. Northern politics forced the South to buy their manufactured goods, which aided the north, but proved to be a detriment to the south. The Southern states felt that their State’s rights were not being upheld properly by the constitution, and therefore had grounds to secede from the Union. As the Civil war came to a close, and the southern states were quickly ushered back into the Union, nearly all of the same Government structures still existed. What did shift was power, to the Northern Republicans, which grappled the senate, and held it for nearly the next 70 years. These shifts in power could have worked their way into congress naturally, if Civil War never broke out, therefore this can not be a basis of radical change, or revolution.

The Civil war had a far less impact socially, that one would have expected. At first, Lincoln set out to re-establish the Union, not to abolish slavery. However, one of the great outcomes of the civil war was indeed the abolishment of this “peculiar institution”. While this achievement can be

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