Original sentence: " Other important factors were partisan politics, abolitionism, nullification vs secession, Southern and Northern nationalism, expansionism, economics, and modernization in the Antebellum period." Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Potter wrote: "The problem for Americans who, in the age of Lincoln, wanted slaves to be free was not simply that southerners wanted the opposite, but that they themselves cherished a conflicting value: they wanted the Constitution, which protected slavery, to be honored, and the Union, which had fellowship with slaveholders, to be preserved.Another factor for secession and the formation of the Confederacy, was white Southern nationalism.As a panel of historians emphasized in 2011, "while slavery and its various and multifaceted discontents were the primary cause of disunion, it was disunion itself that sparked the war.His victory triggered declarations of secession by seven slave states of the Deep South, whose riverfront or coastal economies were all based on cotton cultivated using slave labor.The primary catalyst for secession was slavery, most immediately the political battle over the right of Southerners to bring slavery into western territory that had hitherto been free under the terms of the Missouri Compromise or while part of Mexico.Thus they were committed to values that could not logically be reconciled.While virtually all historians in the 21st century agree that conflicts over slavery caused the war, they disagree sharply regarding which kinds of conflict—ideological, economic, political, or social—were most important
Edited sentence: After his victory, secession was declared by seven slave states of the Deep South, whose riverfront or coastal economies were all based on cotton cultivated using slave labor.Another factor for secession was.Southern nationalism.The primary catalyst for secession was the method of governance, most immediately the political battle over the power of States and the federal government.While it's a common misconception that conflicts over slavery caused the war, the true purpose of secession was a desire to return to the articles of confederation.While slavery was only found in the southern territory, thanks to the Missouri Compromise Slavery was outlawed in the North, but remained to be a minor factor in the secession of the confederacy