When South Carolina seceded, Buchanan was still in the chair, and Lincoln was President-elect.
South Carolina was the first one that did. That state had always been the one that asserted States' Rights most loudly, and it led the secession. When Sherman had finished with Georgia, he punished South Carolina heavily for starting the war, burning down the capital Columbia.
The 7 states of the south that threatened to secede if Lincoln became President.
December 1860, as soon as it heard the result of Lincoln's election as President. Incidentally, it did not just attempt to secede. It did secede, followed by ten more Southern states.
Abraham Lincoln the south seceded from the union because he was elected president.
The election of Lincoln as President.
No. South Carolina seceded on December 20th, 1860, before Lincoln was officially sworn in as President. However, the state did secede as a reaction to Lincoln's election.
The election of Abraham Lincoln
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When South Carolina seceded, Buchanan was still in the chair, and Lincoln was President-elect.
Because the south still wanted slavery/
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Lincoln
The election of Abraham Lincoln as a President of the United States in 1860 Indeed that happened before the outbreak of the Civil War.
The southerners hired a assassin to assassinate president Lincoln.
The election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
DecemberDecember 20, 1860 (following the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency).