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6 days ago · The history of the Southern United States spans back thousands of years to the first evidence of human occupation. The Paleo-Indians were the first peoples to inhabit the Americas and what would become the Southern United States.
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May 22, 2024 · Starting in the early 1600s and lasting to the mid-1800s, slavery played an outsized role in shaping the culture, politics, and economy of the South. This included its agricultural practices, the outbreak of the American Civil War, and ensuing segregation in the United States.
May 17, 2024 · Confederate States of America, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, following the election of Abraham Lincoln as U.S. president, prompting the American Civil War (1861–65). The Confederacy acted as a separate government until defeated in the spring of 1865.
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May 21, 2024 · Combining Northern Whigs with a significant minority of Northern Democrats gave Lincoln the electoral votes of every Northern state—except for a couple like New Jersey. By carrying the North, Lincoln incontestably won the presidency, and he did it without getting any votes at all in the South.
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3 days ago · On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union. Afterward, President James Buchanan refused to surrender Federal forts and installations to states that seceded from the Union.
2 days ago · In the South itself the interpretation of the tumultuous 1860s differed sharply by race. Americans often interpreted great events in religious terms. Historian Wilson Fallin contrasts the interpretation of Civil War and Reconstruction in white versus black using Baptist sermons in Alabama.
May 20, 2024 · In 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, just under four million African American enslaved people lived and labored in the South.
