Slavery was the major issue in the 1860 election. The Republican Party platform promised not to interfere with slavery in the states, but opposed the further extension of slavery into the territories. Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. Abraham Lincoln received 180 electoral votes from 18 of the 33 states. Abraham Lincoln did not receive electoral votes from any southern state. Lincoln was not on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas declared its secession from the United States following the November 1860 election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency. The Civil War began with the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. After the Civil War began in April, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy.
The election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
As a consequence of Lincoln’s election, a special convention of the South Carolina legislature votes to secede from the Union.
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.
Secede from the USA, one by one, starting with South Carolina.
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It triggered the secession of several southern states, starting with South Carolina.
When South Carolina seceded, Buchanan was still in the chair, and Lincoln was President-elect.
Lincoln's election as president
the election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
It caused the south to secede in order to keep their slavery alive .
DecemberDecember 20, 1860 (following the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency).
South Carolina voted to secede from the Union.