The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
Andrew Johnson was Abraham Lincoln's vice-presidential running mate in the 1864 presidential election. Abraham Lincoln and his running mate Andrew Johnson received 2,218,388 popular votes and 212 electoral votes in the 1864 election. Lincoln was elected president and Johnson was elected vice-president.
No. Lincoln was the newly-elected President that the Southern states were rebelling against.
I'm guessing you mean President Abraham Lincoln? On November 6, 1860, President Lincoln was elected the sixteenth president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He received 1 866 452 votes, beating Stephen Douglas by 489 495 votes.
Abraham Lincoln
secede
The southern states.
they seceded from the union
When Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th US President, on November 6, 1860, He received 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote.
South Carolina
when Lincoln was elected president
Led by South Carolina, seven Southern states seceded from the union after Lincoln was elected and before he took office.