Southern States

Southern States of America include the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. The South was in the 18^th and 19^th centuries a very prosperous slave society. Slaves made up about 40% of the population. The white population was very conscious of its liberty and independence and used the labor of slaves on their cotton, tobacco and sugarcane plantations.

After the election of President Abraham Lincoln, known as an adversary of the slavery, 11 states formed the Confederacy – the government established after the secession of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina , Virginia and Tennessee from the Union. This political decision led to the military conflict between South and North known as the Civil War (1861-1865). The secession was caused by economical, political and social differences between industrialized, against the slavery oriented North States and based on the slave labor agricultural South States. The South lost the war and was economically ruined.

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