Abraham Lincoln was president when the first states began seceding. Lincoln's election was basically the final straw that made the states want to secede.
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some southern states secede because of preisdent abrahim Lincoln
Southern states threatened to secede from the Union if Abraham Lincoln was elected as president.
Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 and states began to secede.
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the southern states didn't agree with the unions government when Ab Lincoln was elected president because he didn't like slavery
The Confederate States of America
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".
Abraham Lincoln was the president-elect when the Southern states began to secede. Some of them seceded after he was inaugurated as President.
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who had been recently elected as president of the United States when the southern states seceded
The president received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election.