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Which was the first state to call for a new confederation?

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Chapter Lincoln’s Election, Southern Secession: 1860 to April 1861

Alabama was the first to put it in writing. In the same ordinance that declared Alabama’s independence, the delegates penned an invitation to all the other states in secession to come to Montgomery on February 4, 1861.

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