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There were four slave-states of the Upper South that narrowly voted to stay loyal - Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware.
District of Columbia also practised slavery in the first year of the war.
The Western counties of Virginia broke away from Virginia and the Confederacy, to form their own (Union) state of West Virginia in 1863. There was still some slavery there until it was eventually banned nationwide.
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Who was the first state to leave the union?
tennesee
What state was the first to leave from the union?
South Carolina
Why did southerner states believe they had the right to secede from the union?
They claimed that the USA had started as a voluntary federation of states, and that any of them could leave when they chose.
Was Mississippi the secound state to leave the union?
Yes, Mississippi was the second to secede.
What Southern state was to leave the Union?
South Carolina seceded on December 20th 1860.
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