The Union victory meant that the southern states never actually left the Union, so they didn't need to be readmitted.
The Southern states wanted to keep their slaves, and they were worried that President Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the slaves, so many of the southern states left the union to try and keep their slaves.
11 southern states left the union and formed a separate government.
Richmond, Virginia
It was the Southern states that 'formed separately' by breaking away as the Confederacy. The North was what was left. They didn't call themselves the North. They called themselves the Union.
Jefferson Finis Davis
The Union victory meant that the southern states never actually left the Union, so they didn't need to be readmitted.
Confederation
When Lincoln took office in March 1861 seven southern states had left the Union.
The Southern states wanted to keep their slaves, and they were worried that President Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the slaves, so many of the southern states left the union to try and keep their slaves.
11 southern states left the union and formed a separate government.
The "confederate" army.
The 7 states that left the union were the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy. 4 additional states joined the first 7 to complete the Confederacy.
The Confederates were the Southern slave-states that had seceded from the USA. The Union (North) was what was left.
Because He did not know...
Richmond, Virginia
Franklin Buchanan was the 15th President of the US. he enforced the Dred-Scott Decision. he was President in 1857-1861. An event that happened while he was President was that 7 southern states had seceded, or left the union.