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The beginning of secession Secession is where one state leaves the union. The first state to leave the union was South Carolina and the last state to leave was North Carolina. The boarder states were Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, west Virginia and Delaware. South Carolina Left the union on December 20, 1860 the other states all left in 1861. The battle of Fort Sumter occurred during secession on April 12, 1861. Secession started December 20, 1860 in South Carolina. All of the boarder states accept for Maryland became a slave state but Maryland became a slave and a free state.

Table of the states when the left the union

The only state that left in 1860 was South Carolina and then the rest of the states all left in 1861 none of them left on the same day. Thomas Jefferson's grandsons tried to lead the state into secession but it did not work out. The North said that secession was unconstitutional. The thing that led to secession was the new states that came in were going to be free states. Having the new states left the slave states as monitory as they could so that they could decide to form a new country where they could call the shots that they wished. In the election of 1860 with Abraham Lincoln was the finial straw for the southerners. These states (Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee) those four did not secede until the after the Battle of Fort Sumter that occurred in 1861 that is when the states started to leave the union.

Secession meeting

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