Before April 14, 1861, which states were part of the Confederate States of America?
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When Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president, the South Carolina legislature perceived a threat. Calling a state convention, the delegates voted to remove the state of South Carolina from the union known as the United States of America. The secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- and the threat of secession by four more -- Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America. \n\nGo to this site. There is a map and everything :-)\nhttp://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/civil_war.htm
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This is going to be just a quick summary...\nFor the most part, it was not all about slavery. The states North of the Mason-Dixon line were content with slavery in the South...the problem was the "Westward Expansion." The North wanted the new states to be free from slavery, whereas the South wanted those states to be open to slavery. There were a few compromises made years before the actual war began, however, those obviously did not work. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina announced it's leave from the Union...Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas followed. \nOn February 4th, 1861, the Confederate States of America was formed with Jefferson Davis as the president. A new constitution was drawn up. Key differences were:\n*The president and vice president were elected for six year terms whereas the North had only four years. \n*The protection of slavery in new territories was given. \n*No slave trade with Africa\n*President Davis could take a loan for $15 million for the creation of a military force of 100,000. \nPresident Davis was inaugurated February 18, 1861. \n\nPresident Lincoln for the Union said, "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face and face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after seperation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends?Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old quesetions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it..." (Page 8)\nThe first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12th, 1861 at Ft. Sumter, South Carolina. The fight lasted for thirty-four hours, and ended by the North surrendering. The war continued until April of 1865. \nAfter it was all said and done, most of the South was destroyed and the loss of lives on both ends, are up to this day, only an estimate (over 100,000). It is said, the number of Yanks and Rebels who died are greater than the loss of American lives in both World Wars, the Korean War, and the Vietiman War...all combined.\n\nI hope this has been helpful to you. Here are some other books to check out if you are really interested in the Civil War:\n-"After the Civil War" by John S. Blay\n-"The Life of Johnny Reb" by Bell I. Wiley\n-"The Life of Billy Yank" by Bell I. Wiley\n-"Embattled Courage" by Gerald F. Linderman\n-"The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts" by Burke Davis
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According to the U.S. - 11.\n\nAccording to the Confederacy - 13.\n\nKentucky & Missouri officially remained in the Union.\n\nPro-Secession Factions in these two states formed Confederate governments and seceded.\n\nCheck out the Confederate Flag - it has 13 stars!\n\nThe original "Stars & Bars" flag had 7 stars, representing the ORIGINAL 7 Confederate States.\n\nSouth Carolina (December 20, 1860), \nMississippi (January 9, 1861) \nFlorida (January 10, 1861) \nAlabama (January 11, 1861)\nGeorgia (January 19, 1861)\nLouisiana (January 26, 1861)\nTexas (February 1, 1861)\n\nVirginia (April 17, 1861)\nArkansas (May 6, 1861)\nTennessee (May 7, 1861)\nNorth Carolina (May 20, 1861) \n\nMissouri (October 31, 1861 by the Neosho Legislature) \nKentucky (November 20, 1861 by the Russellville Convention)
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southern united states
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Georgia (January 19 1861)
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Everything changed with the approach of the Civil War. In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president, with virtually no support from the South. His election resulted in the country's southernmost states leaving the Union. On April 17, 1861, days after Lincoln's order to seize Fort Sumter in South Carolina, a convention of Virginians voted to submit a secession bill to the people. Led by Clarksburg's John S. Carlile, western delegates marched out of the Secession Convention, vowing to form a state government loyal to the Union. Many of these delegates gathered in Clarksburg on April 22, calling for a pro-Union convention, which met in Wheeling from May 13 to 15. On May 23, a majority of Virginia voters approved the Ordinance of Secession. It is not possible to determine accurately the vote total from present-day West Virginia due to vote tampering and the destruction of records. Some argue that secessionists were in the majority in western Virginia, while others feel Unionists had greater support.\n\nFollowing a Union victory at the Battle of Philippi and the subsequent occupation of northwestern Virginia by General George B. McClellan, the Second Wheeling Convention met between June 11 and June 25, 1861. Delegates formed the Restored, or Reorganized, Government of Virginia, and chose Francis H. Pierpont as governor. President Lincoln recognized the Restored Government as the legitimate government of Virginia. John Carlile and Waitman T. Willey became United States Senators and Jacob B. Blair, William G. Brown, and Kellian V. Whaley became Congressmen representing pro-Union Virginia.\n\nOn October 24, 1861, residents of thirty-nine counties in western Virginia approved the formation of a new Unionist state. The accuracy of these election results have been questioned, since Union troops were stationed at many of the polls to prevent Confederate sympathizers from voting. At the Constitutional Convention, which met in Wheeling from November 1861 to February 1862, delegates selected the counties for inclusion in the new state of West Virginia. From the initial list, most of the counties in the Shenandoah Valley were excluded due to their control by Confederate troops and a large number of local Confederate sympathizers. In the end, fifty counties were selected (all of present-day West Virginia's counties except Mineral, Grant, Lincoln, Summers, and Mingo, which were formed after statehood). Most of the eastern and southern counties did not support statehood, but were included for political, economic, and military purposes. The mountain range west of the Blue Ridge became the eastern border of West Virginia to provide a defense against Confederate invasion. One of the most controversial decisions involved the Eastern Panhandle counties, which supported the Confederacy. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which ran through the Eastern Panhandle, was extremely important for the economy and troop movements. Inclusion of these counties removed all of the railroad from the Confederacy.\n\nIn terms of the constitution itself, the subject of slavery produced the most controversy. Delegate Gordon Battelle proposed the gradual emancipation of slaves already in the state and freedom to all children born to slaves after July 4, 1865. Although some delegates opposed Battelle's position, they knew they could not create a pro-slavery document and gain approval from Congress. Following much debate and compromise, the provision written into the constitution banned the introduction of slaves or free African Americans into the state of West Virginia, but did not address the issue of immediate or gradual emancipation.\n\nThe United States Constitution says a new state must gain approval from the original state, which never occurred in the case of West Virginia. Since the Restored Government was considered the legal government of Virginia, it granted permission to itself on May 13, 1862, to form the state of West Virginia.\n
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The US civil war was about states' rights and how the federal government trampled all over them.  The slavery issue was added by the Union to keep the British out of the war because they sided with the South.
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Mason and Dickson were Geographers who surveyed the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, this became known as the Mason Dickson line.\n\nPennsylvania is the southern most Free state and Maryland is the northern most Slave state so it was used as a guide to who is in whose territory North or South.\n\nIt was not the line that separated the USA and CSA because Maryland did not Break off from the Union....Washington D.C. is south of the Mason Dickson, It shows the boundary where people south of it consider themselves southern and north of it consider themselves northern.
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The peace treaty of the Civil War was signed at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, by General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant. \n\nThe Emancipation Proclamation allowed all slaves in the southern states (there were no slaves in the north) to be free. It was dated January 1, 1863. Here's a great link for that (read it word for word for yourself, it's kind of cool): \n\nhttp://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html\n\nGood luck with your homework assignment!
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As defined by the Census Bureau, the Southern region of the United States includes 16 states, and is split into three smaller units: The South Atlantic States, which are Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia (plus the District of Columbia); the East South Central States of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee; and the West South Central States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
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The secession of states was when the Southern States decided to leave the union and form The Confederate States of America.  No, they were not inbred blue bloods who wanted to hold onto slavery (slavery was just as rampant in the North - it began there).  The CSA truly believed in the right for states to govern themselves as set forth in the Articles of the Constitution.  This secession led to the War of Northern Aggression (commonly known as the Civil Way), which lasted from April 1861 to April 1864.
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Arkansas had alot of troops to join the confederacy. Not alot happened in Arkansas but if it were not for the Confederacy it would not be a state. It was started by the confederacy. It was a territory before 1860.
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According to   http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html \nOn "April 12, 1861 - At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins"\nOn "April 18, 1865 - Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to Sherman near Durham in North Carolina."\nThere were 258,000 dead and 137,000+ wounded according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
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The only state with a legal right to secede is Texas and that was part of the deal when it joined the union right after the civil war. Any other states would be in essence creating another civil war if they tried. Texas would have problems trying but has the legal option where none of the rest do.
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The border states were the states where the civil war was fought most bitterly.  Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia/West Virginia and others were the states where brother fought brother and neighbor waylaid neighbor.  The decision as to north or south that was decided by the state legislators did not prevent troops from these states from forming units on the other side.\nYour question does not make sense.  See Wikipedia, under the term 'Border States', perhaps something there will connect you with the answer you are looking for.
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general of the confederate army
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Seriously? The Civil War was a war between North and South. It started in 1861 and lasted years. The reasons for the war range from slavery to states rights. It is a very important part of American history and you really need to study up on it.