Election of Lincoln
Southern has seceded from the constitution because of what Abraham Lincoln had said and/or that he had became the president because he was a republican who was against slavery. "I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union" -Abraham Lincoln. Basically he was making their way of life fade away. The Southern States that has seceded was: Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
Economies of the North and South
Whitney's cotton invention in the 1793's he had created to grow cotton, but it had needed lots of slaves required to the work. The economy in the South was more into plantation than the North because the South had cheap labor slaves doing the picking and harvesting. The South had about two-thirds of the cotton. The North was more based on industrial economy. They had made some transportation, military, medicine, and field artillery. They had improved on other unique that they had created.