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The South Carolina General Assembly called for a convention to consider secession following news of Lincoln's victory. The 169 delegates convened at South Carolina Institute Hall in Charleston on December 20. The body included four former governors, three future governors, four former US senators, and five former US congressmen. One hundred and fifty-three of the 169 delegates held slaves in 1860. Approximately 60% of the convention, or 104 members, owned as many as 20 enslaved people or more. Seventy members held 50 slaves or more; and 27 delegates, or 16% of the convention, held 100 slaves or more. The 169 delegates were primarily wealthy, middle-aged, slaveholding, native-born planters and lawyers. They voted uanimously to secede from the federal Union. Charlestonians celebrated with bonfires, parades, and the ringing of church bells.

Just four days after secession, South Carolina issued their “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.” The document offered a legal justification for secession and discussed how the federal government had failed to uphold its constitutional obligations to South Carolina. South Carolina’s declaration argued that the non-slaveholding states had “denounced as sinful the institution of slavery” and had “encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.”

The document then indirectly referenced the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency as a contributing factor: “A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.” According to South Carolina’s declaration, secession occurred because of threats, both real and perceived, to the institution of slavery.

Fire Eaters from South Carolina traveled throughout the South, acting as secession commissioners, to encourage other states to secede as well. South Carolina played an active role in the secession of additional states and the creation of the Confederate States of America.

 

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This was a very important question and highlights the foundation for the basis of Republican think tanks and Conservatism. :sas1:
1. "Get the Government out of our lives" is the root of the conflict pertaining to the Civil War
2. Why did they want the Government out of their lives? well to control and oppress Black peoples lives.
3. The great compromise of 1876 was about (getting the government out of the way) = Union Troops leaving the South and allowing "the North" to have the Presidency so the South could get back to "States rights" of imposing oppression on black people.

The best Republican presidential candidates push this theme without showing the hand of Republican thought and aim.

 
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This was a very important question and highlights the foundation for the basis of Republican think tanks and Conservatism. :sas1:
1. "Get the Government out of our lives" is the root of the conflict pertaining to the Civil War
2. Why did they want the Government out of their lives? well to control and oppress Black peoples lives.
3. The great compromise of 1876 was about (getting the government out of the way) = Union Troops leaving the South and allowing "the North" to have the Presidency so the South could get back to "States rights" of imposing oppression on black people.

The best Republican presidential candidates push this theme without showing the hand of Republican thought and aim.

 

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This was a very important question and highlights the foundation for the basis of Republican think tanks and Conservatism. :sas1:
1. "Get the Government out of our lives" is the root of the conflict pertaining to the Civil War
2. Why did they want the Government out of their lives? well to control and oppress Black peoples lives.
3. The great compromise of 1876 was about (getting the government out of the way) = Union Troops leaving the South and allowing "the North" to have the Presidency so the South could get back to "States rights" of imposing oppression on black people.

The best Republican presidential candidates push this theme without showing the hand of Republican thought and aim.


Really good and brief video on the 1876 Election, Reconstruction, and the history after the Civil War.

Doesn't tell the entire story but definitely makes it easy to connect the dots from the country's failure to protect black people after the war...to the current situation today and how it has persisted.

Would highly recommend sharing. Especially since most people will find a 7 minute video easy to digest.
 
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