USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union on December 20, 1860.

Detailed explanation-2: -The declaration stated the primary reasoning behind South Carolina’s declaring of secession from the U.S., which was described as “increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the Institution of Slavery".

Detailed explanation-3: -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. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America.

Detailed explanation-4: -By February 1861, seven Southern states had seceded. On February 4 of that year, representatives from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana met in Montgomery, Alabama, with representatives from Texas arriving later, to form the Confederate States of America.

Detailed explanation-5: -Under the leadership of former U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis, the Confederate States of America formed in February 1861. The first shots the Civil War were fired on federal forces at Fort Sumter in April 1861.