Secession Phase
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The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused a wave of southern states secessions in the United States. The secessionist states soon formed an independent country, the Confederate States of America.
Chronology
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March 1861: Texas proclaimed its secession from the Union and was admitted to the Confederate States.
December 1860: Within three months of Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860, six Southern states withdrew from the Union.
January 1861: Within three months of Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860, six Southern states withdrew from the Union.
July 1861: Tennessee was admitted to the Confederate States.
February 1861: Texas left the confederation in February.
February 1861: On February 4, 1861 six states, in which the plantation economy operated with slave labor was the most important economic factor, founded a federation of states independent of the USA, the Confederate States of America (CSA).
April 1861: Virginia seceded from the United States.
May 1861: Arkansas was admitted to the Confederate States.
June 1861: Tennessee voted to secede from the Union.
May 1861: Virginia was admitted to the Confederate States.
May 1861: Arkansas seceded from the United States.
May 1861: North Carolina seceded from the United States.
May 1861: North Carolina was admitted to the Confederate States.
June 1861: The State of Scott was a Southern Unionist movement in Scott County, Tennessee, in which the county declared itself a "Free and Independent State" following Tennessee's decision to secede from the United States and align the state with the Confederacy on the eve of the American Civil War in 1861. Like much of East Tennessee, Scott became an enclave community of the Union during the war. Although its edict had never been officially recognized, the county did not officially rescind its act of secession until 1986.
Selected Sources
Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.412
Irvine, D. (1968): Military Operations of the Civil War: A Guide-index to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865, U.S. National Archives and Records Service, Vol. 1, pp. 73-74
Secession Ordinances of 13 Confederate States (1861). Digital History. Retrieved on 25 September 2023 on http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=3953
Secession Ordinances of 13 Confederate States. University of Houston. Retrieved on 4 April 2024 on https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=3953
The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, from the Institution of the Government, February 8, 1861, to its Termination, February 18, 1862, Inclusive. Arranged in Chronological Order. Together with the Constitution for the Provisional Government, and the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, and the Treaties Concluded by the Confederate States with Indian Tribes. Documenting the American South. Retrieved on 4 April 2024 on https://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/19conf/19conf.html
