Georgia, tennesee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama , Texas they were all slave states, and didnt want to be part of the union
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The union of Southern states during the US Civil War was named "The Confederate States of America".
The Civil War was fought because a group of states in the southern US wanted to split away and form a new nation that would be run the way they wanted. The 11 Southern states the broke away (or seceded) were known as the Confederate States. The Union were the remaining states within the United States that fought to keep the southern states as part of the country.
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.
it helped the civil war by sparking the thoughts of war because of slaveryThe Civil War started when some of the Southern states seceded from the Union. So really the secession of the Southern states was the cause of the Civil War.
They are the southern states that seceded from the US and formed the Confederate States of America in 1861. Their action led to the US Civil War as the North sought to end what they called an illegal rebellion. By 1865, the South had been defeated and the states all eventually rejoined the Union.