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The Confederate States of America: South Carolina led the way out of the Union on December 20, 1860, and by March 1861, six more states, flipped out over Abraham Lincoln's election to becoming president and threatened by South Carolina's example, also seceded: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. After the bombardment of Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for troops to put down the rebellion in April, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina followed suit, bringing the number of states in the new Confederacy to eleven. The Confederates were all for slavery and the Union had a different idea of course and these raging opinions clashed and resulted in a Civil War.