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Eleven states seceded from the united states and formed the cofederacy mostly because of the new president standing point on slavery. Lincoln didnt want slavery to expand westward out of the existing states that already had it. Their was also a religious stand point to the succession Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians in the first half of the nineteenth century expressed reservations about slavery but by 1850 John C. Calhoun would note that "already three great evangelical churches had been torn asunder" over slavery.======