On 19 January 1861, at a state convention held in Milledgeville, Georgia voted to secede from the United States of America, becoming the fifth state to do so. Ten days later - 29 January - it issued a 'Declaration of the Causes of Secession', in which it expressed its grievances with the federal government and gave its reasons for seceding from the Union.
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