It did secede. It was one of the original seven.
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The southern states threatened to leave the Union because of antislavery talks.
The North was called the Union because it represented those states that remained in "union" together as the Unites States, and because it was fighting to preserve that union by keeping the rebellious Southern states from leaving it.
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
When Lincoln took office in March 1861 seven southern states had left the Union.
The union of Southern states during the US Civil War was named "The Confederate States of America".