Individual states seceded from the Union in 1861 through votes in their state legislatures and conventions.
The New Jersey Plan was next on their minds
Mainly because it toughened-up the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways.
This recruited many new Abolitionists, and caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
False, due to quite a few things that I don't wish to explain here. However, waste rarely ever stays in one place in any situation.
