Civil War | The Gathering Storm | 1
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Confederate States of America
By the second week of january 18 61, mississippi, florida and alabama had joined south carolina in seceding from the union. By february first, georgia, louisiana and texas had also seceeded. But eight slaveholding states remained in the union including virginia, north carolina and tennessee. Slavery was less dominant in these states than their mores their neighbors, and their leaders were less eager to secede. The seven states that did se Separately met on February 4 at montgomery, alAlabama to form the confederate states of america. They drafted a temporary constitution which explicitly
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