the only federal action that directly resulted secession was lincoln's call for volunteers, which prompted virginia, tennessee, north carolina, and arkansas to secede after having previously opted to stay in the union. although a sense that the north wanted to turn the south into a second haiti by freeing the slaves had led in part to the first wave of secession, the second wave cannot be referred to even general concerns over slavery, but was entirely a response to the federal government's open betrayal of the principles of the american revolution.
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