10 facts about secession from U.S. While lots of states are
hopping on the Secession bandwagon now, threats to leave the
Union have long been made in the United States, but rarely
followed through on. 1. The first serious threat of secession
came from New England, not the South. In 1814, delegates from
the New England states gathered at the Hartford Convention.
While attendees were united in opposition to the War of 1812,
moderates outnumbered extremist delegates who wanted
secession.Continue Reading 2. South Carolina, which would become
the first state to secede during the Civil War, also had earlier
threatened secession, in 1828, over tariffs that were harming
the state’s economy. President Andrew Jackson threatened to send
federal troops to put down the secessionists. 3. While
eulogizing John Brown in 1859, the abolitionist William Lloyd
Garrison called for the northern states to secede from a union
he believed was hopelessly corrupted by slavery. “By the
dissolution of the Union we shall give the finishin