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What was the geographical importance of some slave states not joining the confederacy?
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How many confedrate states?
There were seven states in the Confederacy. The states in the Confederacy included South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
How many states were in the Union Army?
There were 35 states, total before secession started. 11 Southern States seceded, and fought in a formed union, or group called the Confederacy of the United States. During the Civil War, West Virginia broke off from Virginia, and become the 36th state, joining the Union. The answer is 24, then 25.
The seven southern states that left the union were known as the?
The 7 states that left the union were the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy. 4 additional states joined the first 7 to complete the Confederacy.
The states that seceded from the union were called?
The Confederate States of America.
What caused the final four confederate states to secede from the union in April of 1961?
(It was 1861, of course, not 1961.) After the Confederate firing on the US Army garrison at Fort Sumter, Lincoln was not able to declare war, because Congress did not recognise the Confederacy as a sovereign nation. But he did the next best thing, which was to appeal for volunteer troops to put down a rebellion in some of his own states. To the South, this was belligerent talk, and it swung four states of the Middle-South into joining the Confederacy.
How did the confederacy justify its secession?
the united states had been formed by a voluntary joining of states
What was the importance of the first shots of the civil war?
They caused Lincoln to call for 75,000 volunteers - effectively declaring war - which provoked four more Southern states into joining the Confederacy.
How are the 4 border states different from the rest of the union?
They were slave-states that had narrowly voted against joining the Confederacy.
What is the effect of fort Sumter?
Caused Lincoln to appeal for new volunteer troops, which provoked four more states into joining the Confederacy.
Why did Louisiana join the confederacy?
Louisiana joined the Confederacy because, as with the other Southern slave States, it believed that being indepentant from the USA and joining the Confederacy was the best thing to do in order to maitain its way of life. Louisiana joined the Confederacy before the incident at Fort Sumter. Louisiana declared its secession from the United States on January 26, 1861.
Why do you think Virginia North Carolina Arkansas and Tennessee waited before joining the confederacy?
A substantial portion of the population in those states were against secession.
What key event occured in April that led to more states joining the confederacy?
The first shots of the Civil War (Confederate capture of Fort Sumter).
What was one of Lincoln's greatest difficulties?
Keeping the four border states loyal. These were the slave-states that had narrowly voted against joining the Confederacy. But there was still a lot of pro-Southern feeling there.
How can you use the word confederacy in a sentence?
The Confederacy lost the United States Civil War.The states formed a confederacy. We joined the confederacy.
How did Lincoln deal with fort sumpter?
He reacted to the evacuation of the garrison by calling for 75,000 volunteer troops. This provoked four more states into joining the Confederacy - and the war was firmly on.
Was the emancipation proclamination to free only the slaves in the united states?
No, other way round. It was to free the slaves in the rebel states. The slave-states that had remained loyal were allowed to practise slavery for the time being, to discourage them from joining the Confederacy.
Did the southern states join the confederacy?
The southern states were the Confederacy. All the states from Virginia down to Texas, Florida, Mississippi etc. were in the Confederacy.
