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South Carolina became the first Southern state to declare its secession ; December 20, 1860 .
Secession was started in South Carolina on December 20th, 1860.
December 20th 1860 in South Carolina.
December 1860 - after Lincoln had been elected as the first president from the newly-formed Republican party.
You may be thinking of the verb "to secede" or the noun "secession"; however, these words are usually used for an entity or group, not an individual person.Example:South Carolina's secession from the Union took place in December 1860.South Carolina seceded from the Union in December 1860.But NOT --- Mary Jones seceded from the Girl Scouts.
The eleven states of the CSA, in order of secession, were: South Carolina (seceded December 20, 1860), Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee (seceded June 8, 1861).
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.
The states that would become the Confederate States of America all had different dates of secession. The first state to secede was South Carolina in December of 1860. North Carolina was the last state to secede in late May, 1861.
The secessionist leadership of South Carolina had been angry at Washington DC since the Tariff problems that US President Jackson had to solve. As everyone was aware that the fairly new Republican Party was created to stop slavery, the election of Republican Lincoln was the last straw as far as South Carolina was concerned. They seceded from the Union in December of 1860.
South Carolina on December 20 1861, Mississippi January 9 1861, Florida January 10 1861, Alabama January 11 1861, Georgia January 19 1861, Louisiana January 26 1861, Texas February 1 1861, Virginia April 17 1861*. Arkansas May 6 1861*, North Carolina May 20 1861*, and Tennessee June 8 1861*. Viginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee seceded after the South atacked Fort Sumter on April 12 1861 there were five bordering slave states that did not secede from the Union. These States were Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. In essence the American Civil War was more based on economics than slavery, however the freedom of the Slaves was paved with a high price.
South Carolina was the first state to announce secession from Union in December, 1860, upon Abraham Lincoln's election to the office of president of USA. South Carolina never joined Union voluntarily, in fact General Sherman invaded South Carolina in 1865.His forces captured state capital Columbia in February, 1865.
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