Maryland, as it enclosed Washington DC.
Sure enough, it was a group of Maryland secessionists who eventually plotted his assassination.
south carolina
The 7 states of the south that threatened to secede if Lincoln became President.
President Lincoln's role as head of state was to carry out the executive functions outlined in the constitution for the Executive. Also, he had to deal with the Civil War, and make efforts to prevent the secession of the South.
President Abraham Lincoln was worried about Maryland because it was a border state and he thought the state might succeed from the union. Kentucky, Missouri, and Delaware were also at risk because they were border states.
Buchanan. The secession of the first state (South Carolina) was a direct response to Lincoln's election win. But Lincoln was not inaugurated until March 1861.
Lincoln's Presidency
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's Presidency
Civil War President Abraham Lincoln had just been elected US President when the first Southern state of South Carolina in December of 1860 seceded. That state would other Southern states and become united as the Confederate States of America. Part of the reason for secession was due to the South's concerns that Lincoln would abolish slavery entirely. Since Lincoln had not been inaugurated when the states seceded, though, James Buchanan was technically President at the very start. Jefferson Davis was president of Confederacy.Since it would take the usual long process to amend the US Constitution, to abolish slavery, the election of Abraham Lincoln was not a specific cause for secession. The US Supreme Court had said slavery was constitutional. Also, President elect Lincoln vowed to let slavery alone where it already existed.The South did consider Lincoln an enemy, but their secession had deeper toots then a new president that only gathered 31% of the votes.During the US Civil War, the US President was Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln didn't govern a state, but was president of the country.
In essence, President Andrew Jackson claimed that if any state in the Union attempted secession, he would use the military to quell a state in rebellion, by using his powers as commander in chief. The force bill was used later by President Lincoln upon the outbreak of the civil war.
The most prominent person in the North who believed that secession was unconstitutional was President Lincoln. He was in step with many other Northerners.As an aside, the Confederate constitution sought to clarify this issue for its own states. Confederate states were not legally allowed to secede form the Confederacy as a clause within their constitution forbid secession.