Essentials of United States history . UNITED STATES DURING THE CIVIL AVAR O I I Vuioii States Border States Territory Controlledl,v Jfederal Government I ] Coufedcralc States 2S50 100 200 300 ^00 500 SCALE. Of STATUTt MIUES Th. ;Sjg^ilg±Jil^. LINCOLNS FIRST ADMINISTRATION (1861-1865) 269 slave-holding states. Meanwhile the North had becomeunanimous in the belief that the Union was supreme. During the campaign of 1856, the sentiment was quitecurrent among the Southern states that if Fremont, the Re-pubUcan, was elected they would secede and set up a newgovernment. Wlien
Essentials of United States history . UNITED STATES DURING THE CIVIL AVAR O I I Vuioii States Border States Territory Controlledl,v Jfederal Government I ] Coufedcralc States 2S50 100 200 300 ^00 500 SCALE. Of STATUTt MIUES Th. ;Sjg^ilg±Jil^. LINCOLNS FIRST ADMINISTRATION (1861-1865) 269 slave-holding states. Meanwhile the North had becomeunanimous in the belief that the Union was supreme. During the campaign of 1856, the sentiment was quitecurrent among the Southern states that if Fremont, the Re-pubUcan, was elected they would secede and set up a newgovernment. Wlien in 1860 Lincoln was elected, they feltthat the time for action had come. In the movement forseparation from the Union, South Carohna took the on receiving the news of Lincolns election,the legislature called a state convention, which met on the20th of December, 1860, and passed an ordinance of seces-sion. Before Lincoln was inaugurated, Mississippi, Florida,Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas had followed SouthCarolinas lead and withdrawn from the LTnion. 346. The Confederate States. — In February, 1861, aconvention of delegates from the seceded states assembledat Montgomery, Alabama, and formed a new Union, whichwas named The Confedera
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