Lincoln then
called for troops to put down rebellion, which wiped out the possibility that the crisis could be resolved by compromise. Nearly all "conditional Unionists" joined the secessionists, including for example presidential candidate
John Bell of the
Constitutional Union Party, whose home state of
Tennessee was the last to secede. The Virginia convention and the reconvened Arkansas convention both declared secession, as did the legislatures of Tennessee and North Carolina; all four states joined the Confederacy.
Missouri and Kentucky stayed in the United States, but had unrecognized
dual governments.