The South was completely unjustified for seceding from the North. This is because of slavery being unconstitutional, the South’s dependence on the North, and the fact that so few wanted slavery. Slavery was completely unconstitutional. For example, according to document 9, “(T)he fifth amendment to the Constitution...provides that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, and property without due process of law...which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind (slaves)...” These are exact words from the Constitution stating that slavery is illegal and “prohibited” under law. In addition, slavery was also proven unconstitutional in document 4, where Frederick Douglass explains how gruesome an adventure as a slave is, and the cruelty and injustice along with it. Since Frederick was a slave himself, he knows every detail in a slave’s life, and the suffering in daily life. The abolitionist used his status as an influence on all African Americans in war. …show more content…
For example, in document 2, the pie chart labeled “Total Population”, showing that over 70% of the population is in the North. Once the South secedes, there is not enough people to stay successful. In addition, the pie chart labeled “Industrial Workers”, shows that over 90% of industrial workers work in the North. Without cotton, money collapses, which means the South collapses.This proves that the South simply don’t have enough people to have success. Document 3 is another prime example. Hinton Helper says “It is a fact well known to every intelligent Southerner that we are compelled to go to the North for almost every article and utility…” This is a man in the South explicitly saying that the South depended on the North for almost everything. Both of these documents explain how much the South depended on the