The seceded states created the Confederate States ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North ...

A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue ... they turned to the only alternative they believed was left to them: secession, a political decision that led directly ...

But just 16 years after becoming a U.S. state, it seceded in the Civil War. Today, Texans still sometimes speak wistfully of becoming their own country again, free of the dysfunction of Washington ...

Cecily is the author of the upcoming 'Abraham Lincoln and the American West', and 'The Army Under Fire: Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era'. Produced and edited by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer was ...

Lincoln won the presidential election in November 1860. But he would not actually become President until his inauguration on March 4th, 1861 in Washington. During the three months between his ...

In shaping both the moral cause of abolition and the Confederate justification for secession, the Civil War was not merely a contest over warring economic systems, cultural identities, or ...

One of the most significant examples occurred in 1863 when West Virginia seceded from Virginia during the Civil War in order to remain loyal to the Union. Fifty counties from Virginia became part ...

Dogara, who was represented by Timothy Golu, remarked, “We have had a number of crises since independence, the worst of which was the civil war from 1966 to 1970. Seems we didn’t learn much ...

Evans said a member of Congress openly talking of secession hasn’t occurred since the Civil War. Additionally, a Civil War-era U.S. Supreme Court decision — Texas v. White — gives states the ability ...

Members of the Indiana House of Representatives have proposed a bill to establish the Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment ...