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Because it was one of the Deep South states that were most strongly identified with slavery, and it seceded before the war.

It was the decision of the four slave-states of the Upper South to join the Confederacy that actually started the war.

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The plantation owners wanted to continue Slavery instead of paying workers for working in agriculture. Northerners wanted slavery abolished.

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Q: Why did Louisiana secede from the union during the Civil War?
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