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What did southern states do when President Lincoln was elected in 1860?
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∙ 11y ago
South Carolina seceded from the USA, followed by six others in the following weeks.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoThey decided to secede from the Union and create the Confederate States of America which was mainly based on civil rights.
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∙ 11y agoThey decided to secede from the Union and form the Confederate States of America (CSA).
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∙ 11y agoThey began to secede, starting with South Carolina. By the time Lincoln was inaugurated, six more had quit.
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∙ 10y agoThey proclaimed the secession from the United States
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The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln?
The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
As a result of Abraham Lincoln's election as president in 1860 several southern states called for?
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What was the Union Government?
It was the United States government, to which Abraham Lincoln had been elected - minus the representatives of the Southern states that had broken away to form the Confederacy.
Who was the President of the north and south during the Civil War?
Lincoln served from 1861 to 1865; Johnston from 1865 to 1869. Grant took office in 1869. (The war ended in 1865.)
Lincoln made direct threats of military force against the South concerning secession?
True; President Abraham Lincoln told the Southern states that the sanctity of the United States was of paramount importance and he would use military force to keep them from succession. This was nothing new however; some 25 years earlier, President Andrew Jackson told the same southern states the same thing.
The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln?
The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
Who was elected as president of the US when the southern states seceded?
Abraham Lincoln
What did seven southern states decide to do after Lincoln was elected president?
secede
Who said I hope president Lincoln is not re-elected?
The southern states.
Was Lincoln the northern rebel?
No. Lincoln was the newly-elected President that the Southern states were rebelling against.
How many events led to the secession of southern states?
when Lincoln was elected president
Who had been recently elected as president of United States when the southern states seceded?
Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 and states began to secede.
Why was Abraham Lincoln president of the north?
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".
Who was the us president elected in 1860 that caused the southern states to secede from the us?
Abraham Lincoln
Which action did seven southern states take after Lincoln was elected president?
Abolished slavery in MOST nourthern states
Who was elected as president of the US that prompted some southern states to secede?
some southern states secede because of preisdent abrahim Lincoln
Why did the southern states secede when they did?
the southern states didn't agree with the unions government when Ab Lincoln was elected president because he didn't like slavery
