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The confederate states seceded from the USA because Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Abe thought that the union and confederacy should stay as one country. South Carolina was the first to secede from the united stated then later did ten other states. The confederacy broke out war in Fort Sumter, SC and that began the civil war.

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