Why did the South feel justified in seceding from the United States? -The newly elected president wanted to abolish slavery, but the Constitution protected slavery.
-Even before Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as President, he promise to immediately abolish slavery.
-Texas, the first state to secede, stated that slavery was moral and legal, and should remain that way.
-The North had refused to enforce things like the Fugitive Slave Act or export Southern goods.

-The newly elected president wanted to abolish slavery, but the Constitution protected slavery.

Explanation: When Abraham Lincoln became president, Southerners decided that their best course of action, rather than additional compromise, was to form their own country.

the mongolian invasion of china and central asia resulted in a disruption of the silk road as the chinese garrisons lost support from the chinese kingdoms which fell under the mongols. however, as the mongols established a formal dynasty in china, the successors of genghis khan restored the garrisons along the silk road allowing the safe travel caravans again.

cuban communists pressured the soviet union to place missiles in cuba.