1. The Road To Secession
... . Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas followed in the next six weeks. These seven states seceded because the South could no longer tolerate the abolitionists" harassments or the North's blatant disregard of the law. The South paralleled her situation to that of the thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution. The government was not fulfilling its obligations to protect the ... ...
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