History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2103 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Secession, in Order
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The idea
South Carolina seceded on December twentieth, eighteen sixty, and Mississippi, Florida and Alabama followed before the middle of January.
In practice
Georgia on the nineteenth of January and Louisiana on the twenty-sixth.
Where people slip
Texas went on February first, eighteen sixty-one, completing the seven Deep South states that founded the Confederacy.
Your place on the trail
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