a sovereign nation, entitled to all the rights of an independent nation
The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States. When some southern states decided to secede, they elected their own "president" Jefferson Davis. Lincoln remained President of the United States - all the United States - he just wasn't recognized as such by the southern states that seceded. He was not "President of the North".
Aberham Lincoln
No. Lincoln was the newly-elected President that the Southern states were rebelling against.
Abraham Lincoln was the president-elect when the Southern states began to secede. Some of them seceded after he was inaugurated as President.
The Union (Northern) President was Abraham Lincoln. The Confederate (Southern) President was Jefferson Davis.
Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln's opponent.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
secede
The southern states.
The election of Lincoln as President