1. The Fluidity of the American Civil War
... and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. The first six to secede had the highest proportions of slaves in their populations, a total of 48.8 percent. Eight remaining slave states continued to reject calls for secession. Outgoing Democratic President James Buchanan and the incoming Republicans ... Southerners were split between those loyal to the entire United States and those loyal primarily to the southern region and then the Confederacy. C. Vann Woodward said of the latter ...
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