A New Nation

When Lincoln was elected president of the United States, South Carolina immediately secedes from the Union. As South Carolina secedes from the Union, Mississippi followed the secession and raises a new blue flag with a single white star over the State Capitol in Jackson. In February 1861 at a convention in Montgomery, Alabama, with the seven seceding states they created the Confederate Constitution. To establish the Confederate States of America, delegates from seven seceding states met in Montgomery, Alabama and elected Jefferson Davis as the Provisional President of the Confederate States.