After Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860, some southern states chose to secede from the Union because of his position against slavery.
Abraham Lincoln was the candidate of the Republican party. His position against slavery was public. The southern states based their economic activities on the slave labor force system. When Lincoln won the election, they saw their interests threatened and feared the abolition of slavery.
In December of 1860, 7 southern states secede from the Union and created a provisional government in Montgomery, Alabama.
The following year, after hostilities had begun, 4 more Southern states joined, giving birth to the Confederate States of America.
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The men that attended the Constitutional Convention were mostly lawyers, merchants and planters. Most of them had spent time at college, and generally believed that for the United States to succeed, the influence of direct democracy must be somewhat restrained by the government.
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Answer: In the actual armed conflicts of the Civil War, the two sides had numerous nicknames for themselves and each other as a group and individuals, e.g., for Union troops "Federals" and for the Confederates "rebels," "rebs" or "Johnny reb" for an individual Confederate soldier.
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