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Name: Tennessee

Type: Polity

Start: 1861 AD

End: 1861 AD

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At the beginning of the American Civil War, Tennessee seceded from the United States.

Establishment


  • June 1861: Tennessee voted to secede from the Union.
  • 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. .

    1.1.Secession Phase

    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.

  • July 1861: Tennessee was admitted to the Confederate States.

  • Disestablishment


  • July 1861: Tennessee was admitted to the Confederate States.
  • Selected Sources


  • 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
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