USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After Virginia voted to secede from the Union, Western Virginia delegates, two-thirds of whom had voted against secession, gathered in Clarksburg and later Wheeling and decided to carve out their own territory and create “a new Virginia.”

Detailed explanation-2: -The secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of six more states-Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas–and the threat of secession by four more-Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.

Detailed explanation-3: -There is only one instance in U.S. history in which a portion of a state successfully seceded to create a new state: West Virginia, which separated from Virginia in 1863.

Detailed explanation-4: -Four days later, on May 20th, 1861, North Carolina became the last state to join the new Confederacy. State delegates met in Raleigh and voted unanimously for secession. All of the states of the Deep South had now left the Union.

Detailed explanation-5: -On December 20, 1860, South Carolina declared their secession from the United States of America. Within the next six months, ten other southern states would secede from the Union: Mississippi-January 9, 1861.