1860

Lincoln's Election and Southern Secession

Charleston, South Carolina, SC

Lincoln's Election and Southern Secession

Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election on a platform of halting the expansion of slavery, which prompted immediate Southern responses[6]. Shortly after the election, slave states began seceding to form the Confederacy, with South Carolina being the first to secede in December 1860[6]. This chain of events directly …

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