The "secession movement", 1861 (lithograph)

11 southern States declared secession from the United States to form Confederate States collapsing in 1865 when beaten by Union armies in the American Civil War. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana follow South Carolina riding a pig and reaching for a butterfly "We go the whole hog.--Old Hickory (Andrew Jackson) is dead, and now we'll have it." Florida cries, "Go it Carolina! we are the boys to "wreck" the Union." Alabama declares, "We go it blind, Cotton is King!'" Mississippi says, "Down with the Union! Missippi "repudiates her bonds."" Louisiana cries "Go it boys! We'll soon taste the "sweets" of secession" referring to the sugar trade.