WHAT CAUSED SECESSION? This excerpt is from a letter that Jefferson Davis wrote to George Lunt on January 17, 1861. Davis, a U.S. Senator from Mississippi, was a leader of the Southern states-rights movement. In January 1861, he resigned his seat in the Senate, hoping that he might be chosen commander of the newly formed Confederate army. Instead, he was chosen President of the Confederate States of America, a position he held until the South’s defeat in the Civil War. “The Election was not the Cause [of secession] it was but the last feather which you know breaks the Camel’s back. Sectional hostility manifested in hostile legislation by states and raids of organized bodies sustained by Contributions . . . of northern Society furnish to us sufficient cause. . .” Question: What does Jefferson Davis (Doc6) mean by “hostile legislation” and “raids of organized bodies?

WHAT CAUSED SECESSION? This excerpt is from a letter that Jefferson Davis wrote to George Lunt on January 17, 1861. Davis, a U.S. Senator from Mississippi, was a leader of the Southern states-rights movement. In January 1861, he resigned his seat in the Senate, hoping that he might be chosen commander of the newly formed Confederate army. Instead, he was chosen President of the Confederate States of America, a position he held until the South’s defeat in the Civil War. “The Election was not the Cause [of secession] it was but the last feather which you know breaks the Camel’s back. Sectional hostility manifested in hostile legislation by states and raids of organized bodies sustained by Contributions . . . of northern Society furnish to us sufficient cause. . .” Question: What does Jefferson Davis (Doc6) mean by “hostile legislation” and “raids of organized bodies?