The countries that border Brazil are French Guiana, Suriname, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana.
As the sectional crisis over California intensified in 1850,
>> <span>D Southern states considered leaving the Union. </span>
Magna Carta and the mayflower compact
The bombardment of Fort Sumter marked the beginning of the Civil War: a conflict waged over slavery. In 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the United States. As more states followed suit and the Confederacy took shape, many federal installations in the South were taken over by state governments.
