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In my opinion, southern states did/did not have the right to secede because...

Southern states did not have the right to secede.

Explanation:

They obviously did not agree with what the north was doing. But there are many other ways to go about this problem, especially not making your own country just to get what you want. The north tried to have equal representation, and even though it wasn’t, the south could have worked around this opstacle, and negotiated with Lincoln, maybe even going as far as threatening to secede, but not actually doing it. The country as a whole worked together and supported each other for the most part, and the secession put an end to that. Overall, the southern states, in my opinion, did not have the right to secede, becasue there were so many other options that they could have tried first.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.