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South Carolina threatened to secede in 1833 with the Nullification Act.
What did the southerners threaten with
Kentucky did not secede to the confederacy; for a time, it declared itself neutral
The whole of Virginia seceded. Then the mountainous Northwestern part of the state seceded from Virginia, and declared a new state of the Union, West Virginia.
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.