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the election of Abraham Lincoln as President.

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Q: The secession of South Carolina from the Union in 1860 was prompted by?
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What means that a state withdraws from the union like South Carolina tried to do?

Secession. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.


What event in 1860 turned to the secession crisis into a civil war?

The secession of South Carolina from the Union


Who declared South Carolina's secession from the Union illegal?

President Buchanan


Who declared South Carolina's secession from the Union illegal.?

President Buchanan


What is the South Carolina declaration of causes and secession?

Ansewer to CHEIKH CODé GUEYE Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of South Carolina from the federal union.


What were the effects of South Carolina's secession from the Union?

Other Southern states followed South Carolina's lead in secession and ultimately this led to the skirmish at Ft. Sumtner and the Civil War.


Moved South carolina to declare immediate secession from the Union?

Lincoln's election as president


How did senator john crittenden attempt to keep the south from seceding from the union?

Proposed a compromise after South Carolina's secession.


With the passage of the 1832 tariff proposed by Henry Clay?

South Carolina considered secession from the Union as a solution.


What were the other states that left with South Carolina from the Union?

In order of secession; South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama , Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee.


What was the argument used by South Carolina in support of the idea that secession was fair?

States joined the Union on a voluntary basis.


Name all the states the seceded from the union following South Carolina secession in 1860?

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.