who had been recently elected as President of the United States when the southern states seceded
Tennessee seceded from the Union after President Lincoln was elected and began raising an army. =]
Buchanan
James Buchanan was president when seven Souther states seceded. Four more seceded after Abraham Lincoln took office.
Slavery. Both the union and confederates were arguing about if slavery should be in the mexican secession or not. Then when lincoln was elected to president, all southern states seceded
Abraham Licoln.
Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 and states began to secede.
President Lincoln.
The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the president-elect when the Southern states began to secede. Some of them seceded after he was inaugurated as President.
Seceded from the USA
Tennessee seceded from the Union after President Lincoln was elected and began raising an army. =]
Led by South Carolina, seven Southern states seceded from the union after Lincoln was elected and before he took office.
they seceded from the union
Several states seceded when they learned that Lincoln has been elected president.
The Southern states seceded from December of 1860 to April of 1861.