The secessionist leadership of South Carolina had been angry at Washington DC since the Tariff problems that US President Jackson had to solve. As everyone was aware that the fairly new Republican Party was created to stop slavery, the election of Republican Lincoln was the last straw as far as South Carolina was concerned. They seceded from the Union in December of 1860.
The secession of South Carolina from the Union
The election of Lincoln as president.
Lincoln's Presidency
the election of Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln's election to the Presidency - they knew that he would never allow any new slave-states, so they were always going to be out-voted in Congress.
South Carolina seceded from the United States on December 20, 1860, primarily in response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President. His anti-slavery stance and the perceived threat to the institution of slavery galvanized Southern states, leading South Carolina to become the first state to break away from the Union. This act of secession was a crucial catalyst for the onset of the Civil War.
The election of Lincoln as the first Republican president, after the Democratic Party had split into two factions. Lincoln had been elected because he was moderate on the slavery issue.
The secession of the Western Counties of Virginia from the Confederate State of Virginia.
The 1860 election of President Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's election - followed immediately by the secession of South Carolina, and then Lincoln's rejection of the final attempted compromise, because it would have allowed some extension of slavery.
election of president Lincoln
The election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860.