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  Fort Johnson was seized by South Carolina troops in the Charleston Harbor.
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  On Janurary 2nd, 1861, Fort Pulaski was seized by Georgia state troops.
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  The U.S. Arsenal was seized by Alabama state troops in Mount Vernon, Alabama.
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  Senators from Mississippi, Alabama, Flordia, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and South Carolina met in Washington D.C. to discuss secession.
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  The Apalachicola Arsenal was taken over by Florida
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  Mississippi and Alabama are meeting to talk about leaving the Union. They would be the first to do so, if they did.
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  Mississippi's Sec. of Interior and the last Southerner in Cabinet resigns. This was Jacob Thompson.
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  Mississippi is the first state to secede from the Union.
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  Florida is the second state to secede from the Union.
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  Alabama is the third state to secede from the Union.
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  Fort Taylor is able to prevent from being seized because federal troops occupied it.
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  The U.S. Senate killed the Crittenden Compromise.
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  Georgia is the fouth state to secede from the Union.
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  The Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico was taken over by Mississippi state troops.
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  The U.S. Arsenal in Augusta was taken over by Georgia state troops.
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  Louisiana is the fifth state to secede from the Union.
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  Texas is the sixth state to secede from the Union
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  The Confererate government was from by the delegates from the seceded states.
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  The six seceded stated adopt a Provisional Constitution.
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  The first Confederate President was Jefferson Davis.
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  A Peace Commission was established by the Provisional Confederate Congress to stop was with the U.S.
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  The U.S. Arsenal in San Antonio was seized by Texas state troops.
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  The first President of the C.S.A. was inagurated. It was Jefferson Davis
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  The U.S. paymaster's office was seized in New Orleans by Louisiana state troops.
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  Lincoln arrives in Washington, D.C., he is not the president at this time.