Following Lincoln's 1860 election win, on a ticket of no new slave-states, the South saw that it would always be outvoted in Congress, which would tend to pass laws that favoured the North.
So the Confederacy began, with South Carolina seceding from the USA in December, and six more by the time of Lincoln's inauguration in March. After the firing on Fort Sumter, and Lincoln's appeal for volunteer-troops, another four states joined them, making-up the eleven states of the Confederacy.
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to succeed
Several New England states attempted to secede as late as 1856. Maine was at the center of the movement. I'm not sure about New Jersey.
The southern states did not succeed, they lost.
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Before the Civil War, some believed that each state had the right to leave the Union by its decision alone. The US Civil War established that a state cannot succeed from the Union without the permission of the other states, as expressed by Act of Congress.
The slave-owning southern states.
Lincoln's administration ended slavery in the United States and kept the federal union intact.
the south didnt have to defeat the union, just avoid losing
attempting to hold the nation together during the time when the southern states were looking to succeed from the Union.
Tennessee
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Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861
No, the State of Wisconsin had never secededfrom the Union.
No. The Supreme ruled in 1869 the constitution does not gives states the authority or power to secede. Including Texas. Several Southern states attempted secession resulting in the civil war, when the union prevented it. No state can vote itself out of the union, or declare it's sovereignty or independence.