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  2. File:Southern United States Civil War Map.svg - Wikipedia

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    Historic Southern United States. The states in light red were considered "border states", and gave varying degrees of support to the Southern cause although they remained in the Union. Date: see file history below. Source: own work by uploader, based on Image:Map of USA without state names.svg: Author: This version: uploader

  3. Confederate States of America - Wikipedia

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    With Abraham Lincoln's election as President of the United States in 1860, eleven southern states believed their slavery-dependent plantation economies were threatened, and began to secede from the United States. [1] [10] [11] The Confederacy was formed on February 8, 1861, by South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana ...

  4. Black Belt in the American South - Wikipedia

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    United States map of the Black American population from 1900 U.S. Census There were few alternative jobs in the Black Belt region. When factories opened or retooled to supply the war effort in World War II, and the military draft was introduced, large numbers of African American farmers left for the army or cash-paying jobs in nearby or distant ...

  5. Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    Listed below are states that are defined by the Census Bureau as the Southern United States. Washington, D.C. is located in the Southern United States region as defined by the Census Bureau, but serves as the capital city of the United States, and is not a state.

  6. Dixie - Wikipedia

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    M. E. Garrison's Map of Dixie published in 1909. This version of Dixie only includes states within the Southeast, omitting traditionally included states such as Texas or Virginia. Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States.

  7. Reconstruction era - Wikipedia

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    The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history and Southern United States history that followed the American Civil War (April 12, 1861 - April 9, 1865) and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of the abolition of slavery and the reintegration of the eleven former Confederate States into the

  8. Solid South - Wikipedia

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    A map of the United States during the Civil War. Blue represents free Union states, including those admitted during the war. Light blue represents southern border states, though West Virginia, Missouri and Kentucky had dual Confederate and Unionist governments.

  9. History of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    As industrial technologies including the cotton gin made slavery even more profitable, Southern states refused to ban slavery- perpetuating the division of the United States between free and slave states. Tensions escalated as the United States expanded west ward (also retroactively causing the Southeast region to also expand to the west.