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They were practically slave states that wanted to save the institution of slavery. When things did not go their way, they decided to break out of the Union and became the Confedrate states, Virginia became their capital and Jefferson Davis was declared their President. The first action of breaking away and the cornerstone state of the confederacy was South Carolina, as they were the first state to break off the Union. They based their economic system around the institution of slavery.
This is what i can tell you from the top of my head. If more come around i will for sure post it here and fill you in. If some of my information here is rusty then forgive me, but i doubt it is.
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