What was the South's collective and individual state reaction to Lincoln's election? Why did the southern states exhibit varying reactions to the event?
What will be an ideal response?
Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define the "South" as seventeen southern states divided between the Upper South, Deep South, and Border States.
2. Explain that the southern reaction to Lincoln's election was to call him a dictator and to vow to leave the Union to defend democracy in the form of owning black people.
3. Note that several southern states immediately left the Union, starting with South Carolina; some wait several months to leave; some southern states never left, such as four Border States during the war because of their close proximity to the northern states.
4. Conclude that this process of secession was seen as treasonous and a rebellion against federal authority by most northern whites but viewed as heroic and democratic by most southern whites, even those from states who did not leave the
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