
Data
Name: Tennessee
Type: Polity
Start: 1861 AD
End: 1861 AD
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Tennessee
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At the beginning of the American Civil War, Tennessee seceded from the United States.
Establishment
Chronology
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1. American Civil War
Was a civil war in the United States of America between the central government (Unionists) and the secessionist Confederate States of America that occupied the southern States. The main cause of the war was the different economic system of the northern and southern states: the northern states were industrialized and had abolished slavery, whereas the southern states relied on slavery to run its plantation agriculture based economy. At the end of the war the Union occupied the southern states and slavery was abolished. .
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.