South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas declared its secession from the United States following the November 1860 election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency. The Civil War began with the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. After the Civil War began in April Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy.
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The election of 1860 included the following candidates: Abraham Lincoln John Bell John Breckenrige Stephen Douglas The election of 1860 was mostly over the controversial issue of slavery. Abraham Lincoln won a bitter election
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This was the election which set stage for the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was the president-elect from the 1860 election.
The 1860 election was held in the same place all US National Elections are held....in America.