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Answer the following question
Name the states which established the Confederation.
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Solution
Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the union and established a new nation i.e., the Confederate States of America. They chose their own President Jefferson Davis in February 1861.
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