The Secession Crisis

The Secession Crisis

Introduction

Secession crisis lasted from the period of 1860 to 1861, when many states declared independence from the United States, mainly on the controversy of slavery expansion. It is considered in history as one of the most important events which finally led to the civil war. Various attempts and compromises had been made by the states in order to prevent the secession and the most tragic war of the American history, for example the Nullification Crisis and Missouri Compromise. The paper discusses the Secession crisis and the compromises made for balancing state and federal power by the stated ...