# Georgia's Declaration of Secession: Why Georgia Left the Union — WHE Article Discussion (2-2972)

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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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_This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at [https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2972/georgias-declaration-of-secession/](https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2972/georgias-declaration-of-secession/)._

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