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secession: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 1860 - 1861
Location United States
Context abolitionism • American Civil War

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Map of the United States during the Civil War, color-coded to show Union free states, Union slave states, Confederate states that seceded before and after April 1861, and West Virginia, which joined the Union in 1863. The map also marks federal and unorganized Indian territories, with the Confederacy highlighted in green and border slave states in orange.
American Civil War: secession
Bombardment of Fort Sumter
Historical map of the southern United States showing county-level voting results on secession from the Union in 1860-1861. Counties are color-coded: orange for secession, purple against secession, pink for divided delegations, and green for no returns. State boundaries and dates of secession are labeled, with dashed lines marking Union-Confederacy boundaries.
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West Hughes Humphreys
American jurist
Robert Augustus Toombs
Robert A. Toombs
American politician
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Anna Ella Carroll
American political pamphleteer