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- In
1860, following the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina was the
first state to leave the Union causing six other states to also join
together and leave. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas were the first six states to leave.
Later on adding Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and
Virginia.
Together these states became known as the Confederate States of America
electing Jefferson Davis, a senator from Mississippi, to become their
president.
- With the Southern
States gone the Northern states banded together to form the Union
consisting of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Oregon, and
California. With Abraham Lincoln as our president.
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- In
the 1850's tensions soon were high in the Northern and Southern parts
of America. Distrust and anger soon played into a major and
unforgettable conflict, the Civil War. The Civil War
interests us today because besides the fact the the nation was half
divided it was a time period when each other was so frustrated with the
political and legal systems of our government they believed the only
solution was to go to war.
- The entire reason the
Civil War was started was because the North did not want the South to
secede from the government. While the North also didn't agree with
other things the South was doing such as slavery the main reason was
because they wanted to keep the Union together.
- Below are some links that will give
you more information on the Civil War:
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