How did events of the 1800s lead to the session of the South?

How did events of the 1800s lead to the session of the South?|||“That conflict...was inevitable...for the reason that it is not in the nature of the human animal in the mass willingly to suffer difference-that he sees in it always a challenge to his universal illusion of being the chose son of heaven, and so an intolerable affront to his ego, to be put down at any cost in treasure and blood. But in this inevitable conflict the South was steadily driven back upon the defensive. It had begun with the control of the national government in its hands, but even there it lost ground so surely and so rapidly that it early became plain that it was a matter of time before the Yankee would win undisputed sway in the Congress and do his will with the tariff”





The quote came to me quickly because I just used it for a paper I wrote today.





By "control of the national government" Cash is referring to the majority Presidents being Southerners, majority of Speakers of the House, majority of Chief Justices, etc. That influence quickly began to erode with things like the Tariff of Abominations. During the Nullification Crisis, South Carolina threatened to secede...then came "Popular Sovereignty," you can take it from there.





I'm a history teacher...I can't give you all the answers, you have to figure it out for yourself.