Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia.
Other Southern states followed South Carolina's lead in secession and ultimately this led to the skirmish at Ft. Sumtner and the Civil War.
They justified secession with the theory of states' rights.
Secession
The Civil War followed naturally from the secession - which was caused by the increasing difficulty of creating new slave-states, so that the South was getting outvoted in Congress, which then tended to pass laws that favoured the North.
what were the pro slavery anti secession statesgenerally known as border states
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the United States on December 20, 1860. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed seceding in January and February of 1861.
Other Southern states followed South Carolina's lead in secession and ultimately this led to the skirmish at Ft. Sumtner and the Civil War.
Southern states
They justified secession with the theory of states' rights.
During the Civil War era in American history, the secession of most of the Southern states occurred from December 1860 to February 1861, when seven states seceded from the Union. Four more states seceded after formal hostilities broke out in early April 1861.
Secession
The Civil War followed naturally from the secession - which was caused by the increasing difficulty of creating new slave-states, so that the South was getting outvoted in Congress, which then tended to pass laws that favoured the North.
Secession. The civil war was caused by the secesion of the Southern states.
what were the pro slavery anti secession statesgenerally known as border states
Henry Clay, a leading American statesman, was firmly opposed to secession. He believed that secession would lead to disunion and undermine the strength of the United States as a nation. Clay worked to find compromises to prevent secession and preserve the Union, including his efforts during the Nullification Crisis and leading up to the Civil War.
the united states annexed Texas
he believed in the confederacy (the rights of southern states) and secession from the union