The day after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to help suppress the rebellion. Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina joined the Confederate States of America rather than sending troops into neighboring South Carolina.
Four of them did - Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas.
Arkansas, Tennessee , Nort Carolina and Virgina
After the surrender of Fort Sumter in April of 1861, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months and end the Southern rebellion. After Lincoln's announcement, the southern slave states of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina joined the Confederacy.
Louisiana,Arkansas, and Tennessee
The major results were: - the outbreak of the Civil War; - Lincoln call for 75,000 volunteers to fight the rebellion. - The Secession of Virginia, Arkansas, tennessee and North Carolina.
The were 4 States which left the Union after Lincoln call for troops: Virginia on April 17, Arkansas on May 6 Tennessee on May 7 and North Carolina on May 20, 1861.
States in the upper south
The election of Lincoln is what prompted them to secede. When he was elected the southern states thought he would pass a federal law making slavery illegal, so they separated before he could do it. To Lincoln it became a States rights issue and he was determined to keep the union together.
Virgina, Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina
Virgina, Tennessee, Arkansas and North Carolina
The states of the upper South, such as Virginia and Tennessee seceded from the United States in 1861.
Following US President Lincoln's call for 75, 000 new troops after the surrender of Fort Sumter, the following Southern States seceded from the Union. They were Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas.