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.
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were four slave states that did not secede from the Union. West Virginia, another slave state, seceded from Virginia and joined the Union during the Civil War. it was 4 that didn't secede from the union.
Not legally. During the American Civil War, 1861 - 1865, a group of states tried to leave the Union, (secede ), and were prevented from doing so.
There were four slave states that did not secede from the union, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. Slaves in these states were not freed till after the civil war; not even by the Emancipation Proclamation.
It means to withdraw membership from an organization. ie: The south seceded from the union during the civil war.
Texas was a southern state during the Civil War.