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They seceded from the Union and set up an independent federation of States: the Confederacy.

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What were the Southern states called prior to American Civil War?

Prior to the US Civil War, Southern states were sometimes referred to as slave holding states. Technically and in reality, until the Civil War, all US states were called US states. This is not some way to marginalize the antebellum period of the US.


What did the eleven states that seceded the union form?

Prior to the Civil War, southern states seceded to form their own country; the Confederate States of America.


What were some issues the north and the south had prior to the civil war?

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What power of the Constitution justified the actions of the southern states prior to the Civil War?

The Supreme Court's decision that slavery enjoyed total protection by the Constitution.


What form of government did the southern states have during the Civil War (1861-1865)?

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The relative absence of enterprises engaged in manufacturing and finance prior to the civil war in the southern states is most likely due to?

the dependence on cotton farming in the South


What were the northern and southern strength and weaknesses prior to the civil war?

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Was the planter class was the upper class of people in southern society prior to the civil war?

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What was the main cash crops of the southern states before the civil war?

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What was the general opinion of African Americans prior to the Civil War?

Although there were thousands of documented cases to the contrary (mainly in the northern states and among a few hundred Southern Abolitionists), they were thought as property.


What is the name who refers to the southern states prior to the time of the american civil war?

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What efforts were made to prevent the outbreak of the civil war?

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