sucession of 11 states

The secession of eleven southern states has affected America more then any other event or war in history. The secession was followed by fours years of bloody warfare and the lives of one-half million Americans in the Civil War. The Civil War resulted in the loss of many Americans, along with destruction, racial and sectional hatred that still exists today. Almost one and a half centuries later, America is still marked-politically, economically, and socially. Today Historians argue the events that lead up to the Civil War, and what really caused the secession of eleven southern states from the union. Many say that it was an accident and possibly from political misjudgments. Who's to blame for the secession? Was it President Buchanan's indecisiveness or Lincoln's refusal to accept the Crittenden Compromise?
The southerners wanted slavery to be allowed since they have plenty of slaves and needed them to work their crops. The northerners didn’t have many plantations so therefore th...