No. Democratic Party candidate James Buchanan won the 1856 presidential election. Buchanan won 19 states including all of the southern states. The southern states seceded after Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election.
No. They seceded after Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election.
The Southern states seceded from December of 1860 to April of 1861.
Abraham Lincoln (Correction) No, it was still Buchanan. South Carolina seceded immediately they heard that Lincoln had won the election. But he was not inaugurated until March.
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James Buchanan
The election of Abraham Lincoln.
James Buchanan was president when seven Souther states seceded. Four more seceded after Abraham Lincoln took office.
no, the south hated him. His election was one reason the southern states seceded.
They seceded from the Union, and the US Civil War, followed.
They seceded after the election of 1860 because Lincoln didn't want to make anymore slave states. The south liked slavery and therefore, the south would not have any say in government. :)
South Carolina seceded on December 20, 1864 , while James Buchanan was President and soon after Lincoln's election became official. The other ten seceded on June 8, 1861, after Abraham Lincoln had taken office as President.
Events of the Fiery 50s before southern states seceded included election of Lincoln, holding of conventions, and formation of a confederacy.
December 1860, when South Carolina seceded, in reaction to Lincoln's election win.