The Crittenden Compromise

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South Carolina was the first to withdraw from the Union. The state of South Carolina did not want to be part of nation that had no control. Then other southern states such as, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, and Louisiana left the Union. As a result they established the Confederate States of America, which was an independent southern slave republic. Lower and South and Upper South had to go to war to decide whether what side to pick. The Deep South was slave based agriculture and the Upper south had a variety of economy. Abraham Lincoln and John Crittenden did not want this circumstance to progress in a negative way. “The Crittenden Compromise proved unworkable. Secessionists in the Deep South had no interest in returning to