What is states seceding ?

Secession, in U.S. history, the withdrawal of 11 slave states (states in which slaveholding was legal) from the Union during 1860–61 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president. Secession precipitated the American Civil War. ... Four border states held slaves but remained in the Union.

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In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States

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on december 1, 1774, the continental association was created to boycott all contact with british goods. by reversing the economic sanctions placed on the colonists, the delegates hoped britain would repeal its intolerable acts.