The first four states to secede were: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama.
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.
Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina all stayed in the Union after the mass exodus of southern states. Once Lincoln ordered all Union states to gather together troops to help fight the Confederacy, the four chose to leave the Union instead of raising arms against their "Southern Brothers" as they called it!
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Brothers and Sisters - 2006 States of the Union 2-4 is rated/received certificates of: Netherlands:6
the 4 border states between the north and the south
The Confederate States of America was formed on February 4, 1861 after some Southern states decided to secede or leave the Union. i do believe it was actually february 8th.
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They were slave-states that had narrowly voted against joining the Confederacy.
Thomas Jefferson served as President of the United States during March 4, 1801 - March 4, 1809. Ohio is the only state admitted into the union during Jefferson's presidency. Ohio was admitted into the Union on March 1, 1803 becoming the 17th state to join the Union.