secessionist

Examples of secessionist in the following topics:

• Buchanan's Waiting Game

  • As part of their justification for leaving the union, secessionists argued that the Constitution was a compact among states that could be abandoned at any time without consultation and that each state reserved the right to secede from the compact.
  • In the aftermath of the Presidential election of 1860, President Buchanan did little to halt this secessionist tide in the Deep South.

• The West and the Civil War

  • The campaigns were instigated by the secessionist desires of the citizens of Texas and southern Arizona.
  • Slavery was legal in the state, and Missouri had a well-organized and militant secessionist movement.

• The Dred Scott Decision

  • In the South, the decision encouraged proslavery, secessionist elements to make bolder demands in Congress.

• Secession of the South

  • As part of their justification for leaving the Union after the election of 1860, secessionists argued that the Constitution was a compact among states that could be abandoned at any time without consultation, and that each state reserved the right to secede from the compact.

• Lincoln and Republican Victory in 1860

  • Meanwhile, in the South, secessionists threw their support behind Breckinridge in an attempt to contest the election in the House of Representatives (where the selection of president would be made by the representatives elected in 1858), while Southern state military preparations were underway in the event of war.

• Conclusion: The Increasing Inevitability of War

  • Southern Democrats, on the other hand, nominated secessionist John C.