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When the Confederate States declared themselves an independent contry they withdrew from United States of America, They were no longer 'united'. The union of the states was broken because they were no longer one country. The term for this was secede.

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Secede. When the southern states seceded from the United States of America, it was referenced as "the union sundered," or split apart.

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