Secession Dates of the Southern Southern States:
These are all of the states that seceded during the presidency of James Buchanan, who did not order any response because he believed they had the right to secede if they wanted to.
VA seceded April 17th, AR seceded May 6th, NC seceded May 20th and TN seceded June 8th.
States in the upper south
The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
It was first joined by states in the Deep South.
The South was the Confederacy - the eleven states that had seceded from the USA. The North meant all the other states, and these included four states of the Upper South that had remained loyal. But their loyalty was often uncertain (a major worry to Lincoln), and all of them recruited some regiments of Confederates.
The eleven states of the CSA, in order of secession, were: South Carolina (seceded December 20, 1860), Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee (seceded June 8, 1861).
The states of the upper South, such as Virginia and Tennessee seceded from the United States in 1861.
States in the upper south
The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
Because pro-slavery feelings were stronger in the Deep South. In the Upper South, there was less enthusiasm for secession.
Because secessionist feeling ran more strongly in the deep South. In the slave-states of the Upper South, more people were against secession. Of those eight states, four seceded after the Battle of Fort Sumter, and the other four remained loyal by a fairly narrow margin. They were known as the Border States.
Following Lincoln's call for troops after the attack on Fort Sumter, four states initially seceded from the Union: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama. They were later joined by Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, making a total of eleven states that seceded.
The South seceded from the United States.
South Carolina seceded from the Union before the Civil War.
The Confederate States of America.
South Carolina
Four. Of the eight states of the Upper South, four narrowly voted Confederate, and the other four narrowly voted Union.
Only one state seceded in 1860, South Carolina.