-- Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
Southern States Secede
Secession
fever hit the South after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. The
South considered Lincoln's Republican party victory in the 1860
presidential election as a sign that the North was now going to end the
"peculiar institution" of slavery. For the South, the time of talk and
compromise had ended. In December, 1860 South Carolina became the first
state to secede from the Union. Secession of the rest of the states that
would make up the Confederate States of America occurred in two waves.
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The United States of America
The Union consisted of 23 states at the start of the Civil War. The states remaining in the Union are:
California, Connecticut, *Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, *Kentucky, Maine, *Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, *Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
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* Note: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were Border States. They were slave states that remained in the Union.Two states added to the Union during the Civil War are West Virginia and Nevada. |
At the end of the Civil War, the United States of America was once again an undivided union.
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- Civil War Casualties
- Slavery
- Clara Barton
- End of the Civil War
- West Virginia Becomes a State
- Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy
- The Confederate States of America
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