Assertion: u.s.'s state | /r/CapableOf | declare their secession
Facets:
value: from the united states
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
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: Four more states (Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas) refused Lincoln's call for troops and declared secession, while Kentucky maintained an uneasy "neutrality".
text: Seven states declared their secession from the United States before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861.
text: After the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter April 12, 1861, and Lincoln's subsequent call for troops on April 15, four more states declared their secession: