answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

All the states that formed the original confederacy seceded before the civil war, 11 in total:

South Carolina

Mississippi

Alabama

Florida

Texas

Arkansas

Georgia

North Carolina

Tennessee

Virginia

Louisiana

User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: Which state seceded from the union prior to the civil war?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Which state seceded from the union before other states of the confederacy?

Seven states seceded from the Union prior to the outbreak of the Civil War: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. After the Civil War started, four more states seceded: Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.


At the start of the civil war what was the first state to secede from the union?

South Carolina seceded prior to the start of the American Civil War, but it was the first state to do so.


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.


Which state was the first to secede frome the union prior to the start of the civil war?

On January 10, 1860, Florida seceded from the Union. Florida was the first State to do so. Later that year South Carolina became the second State to do so.


Which present-day state broke away from a slave state and was admitted to the union during the civil war?

West Virginia seceded from Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union. It was admitted in 1864.


What did southern states begin to do prior to the start of the civil war?

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


How did southern states respond to the Lincoln's election?

They seceded from the Union, and the US Civil War, followed.


How did the south states seceded before civil war?

South Carolina seceded from the Union before the Civil War.


What is the name of The formal withdrawal of a state from the union is known as?

Secession is the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union. There were eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860, which led to the Civil War.


Who was the slavery civil war between?

The Union States (northern and non slavery) and the Confederate State (seceded from the union, southern, and pro slavery).


What state in the civil war seceded first?

The first state to secede from the American Union was South Carolina. Directly as a result of the election of Abraham Lincoln as the 16th American president, this southern state seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860.


What state entered the Union during the Civil War?

Do you mean who seceded first - from the Union? That was South Carolina. Later one state seceded from the Confederacy, and that was West Virginia.