Assertion: u.s.'s state | /r/CapableOf | join the confederacy
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text: Four additional slave-holding states – Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina – declared their secession and joined the Confederacy following a call by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln for troops from each state to recapture Sumter and other seized federal properties in the South.
text: When Lincoln called for troops to suppress the Confederacy in April 1861, four more states seceded and joined the Confederacy.