there isn't really a name for them, they are like any state but they have slavery. you could call them southern slave states or slave states, or southern states...... there is no definition for slave states that didnt secede proir to the civil war
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.
During the Civil War, the United States was divided into the Union and the Confederacy. Twenty states belonged to the Union, and there were also four border states that did not secede from the United States, but also did not give up slavery. The Confederacy had eleven states.
South Carolina seceded from the USA, followed by six others in the following weeks.
The American Civil War started after seven states seceded from the United States because of slavery. President Lincoln also had to put the betterment of the nation ahead of the ability of states to secede
Because the south wanted to secede from the United States
The confedaracy
They didn't "secede to" anything, but to form a new government called the Confederate States.
No they do not. We are a united nation.
there isn't really a name for them, they are like any state but they have slavery. you could call them southern slave states or slave states, or southern states...... there is no definition for slave states that didnt secede proir to the civil war
The South seceded from the United States.
The Border States, or the Buffer States.
South Carolina was the first of the Confederate States to secede from the United States.
North Dakota could vote to secede from the United States and either form their own country or become part of another country. However, there have been many attempts by various states or portions of states to secede, but none have succeeded.
Borders do not secede but states do. Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were border states that did not secede in the union.
1860
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.