The southern states started seceeding after Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election. However, James Buchanan was still President at that time. Seven states had seceeded by the time Lincoln took office, and four more seceeded after he took office.
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Abraham Lincoln had just been elected when states began to secede.
When South Carolina seceded, Buchanan was still in the chair, and Lincoln was President-elect.
The first seven of them seceded while Buchanan was President and Lincoln was president-elect.
James Buchanan.
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The American Civil War started after seven states seceded from the United States because of slavery. President Lincoln also had to put the betterment of the nation ahead of the ability of states to secede
the union or the united states of America
South Carolina seceded from the USA, followed by six others in the following weeks.
The executive leader of the United States is the President.
When the Confederate States declared themselves an independent contry they withdrew from United States of America, They were no longer 'united'. The union of the states was broken because they were no longer one country. The term for this was secede.
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".
The American Civil War started after seven states seceded from the United States because of slavery. President Lincoln also had to put the betterment of the nation ahead of the ability of states to secede
Jefferson Davis. He unified the southern states into a coalition to secede from the United States of America.
Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 and states began to secede.
the union or the united states of America
The election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States in Nov. 1860.
No, Paul Allen has never been the President of the United States. He started his military career with the United States Army in 1989. He later became the Vice President of the United States.
The confedaracy
No they do not. We are a united nation.
The South seceded from the United States.
James Buchanan was a bachelor while President of the United States, for one term. He was President from 1856-1860. The southern states began to secede from the Union, once President Lincoln had been elected, in 1860, and began serving as President in 1861.
Obama is still in office because he was elected by a majority of the American people. Even though there are petitions from thirty states to secede, the largest amount of signatures is 40,000 from Texas. At this time, there is simply no reason for The President of the United States to be removed from office.