The Secessions of Georgia and The Politician Alexander Stephens
The secession was when certain U.S states broke off from the U.S., which caused a war, known as the Civil War. The first 7 states that seceded from the Union, the border states of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, set up a government in Montgomery, Alabama. Georgia seceded on January 19, 1861. The first hostility began at Fort Summer in Charleston Harbor, on April 12, 1861. After that, the Confederate moved their government base to Richmond Virginia. Soon, the U.S. was separated geographically in half, with 11 states that supported slavery, and the other 39 states were against it. Alexander Stephens was a American politician that was from Georgia, and he was the vice president of the Confederate States of America. He got a seat at the U.S. house of representatives in 1843. When he became the vice president of the Confederate States of America, he gave a speech saying that blacks people were lower ranking compared to white people. When he was outwardly critical of president Davis, he was arrested when the Civil War ended. When he was free from prison, he was re-elected in the congress in 1873, and died on 1883 in office.