https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south en-us 2016-04-01 12:54:52 UTC 2024-07-21 20:35:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/19167922/96b2826ea1321e7b135f7928d8eb3ca68d54413d/51c8b453000fb2670db07e77b39fbec0.jpg ehunt2 https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103620497 (verb) to leave a formal union, group or agency]]> 2016-04-01 12:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103620497 ehunt2 https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103620578 When Lincoln became president, the South believed their economy would tank. He did not believe in slavery, yet the South needed it in order for their economy to work. They saw him as a sectionalist president, favoring the North only. Shortly after he became president, South Carolina felt that they had no choice. In 1860, that state seceded from the United States and formed the Confederacy.]]> 2016-04-01 12:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103620578 ehunt2 https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103620871 South Carolina led the secession, with 6 more Southern states following within 4 months. They formed a new country called the Confederacy of the United States.]]> 2016-04-01 12:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103620871 ehunt2 https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103621035 In 1861, the 7 Southern states held a convention and elected Jefferson Davis from Mississippi as President of the Confederacy. They Confederacy cited the Declaration of Independence when it said "it is the right of the people to alter or abolish" a government that denies the rights of its citizens. They firmly believed that Lincoln would deny them the right to own slaves.]]> 2016-04-01 12:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103621035 ehunt2 https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103621302 Lincoln announced that states did not have the right to secede. He also said there would be no war unless the South started it. In April 1861, Confederate troops asked for Fort Sumter to be surrendered by the United States. They refused so the South attacked. War had begun.]]> 2016-04-01 13:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103621302 ehunt2 https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103621852 2016-04-01 13:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103621852 ehunt2 https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103621871 2016-04-01 13:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103621871 ehunt2 https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103621988 2016-04-01 13:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103621988 ehunt2 https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103630243 2016-04-01 13:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ehunt2/south/wish/103630243