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The election of Lincoln in 1860. He would not allow any new slave-states, so the South knew they would always be outvoted in Congress.

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Abraham Lincoln the south seceded from the union because he was elected president.

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Abraham Lincoln became president, and South Carolina didn't like that so they seceded.

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