Abraham Lincoln the south seceded from the union because he was elected president.
The south believed that President Lincoln was an abolitionist. They were afraid that Lincoln would outlaw slavery and seceded in anticipation of slavery being outlawed.
Abraham Lincoln
The election of Lincoln as President.
No. South Carolina seceded on December 20th, 1860, before Lincoln was officially sworn in as President. However, the state did secede as a reaction to Lincoln's election.
When Abraham Lincoln became president
Because he would not allow any new slave-states, so the South was doomed to be outvoted in Congress, which would tend to pass laws favourable to the North.
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.
No. In fact, when he was elected for his first term as US President, his election was one of the main events, which prompted the Southern States to secede and led to the US Civil War.
Many southern states such as South Carolina had threatened to, and did, secede from the Union even before Lincoln's presidency. With the northerner Lincoln as president and the north-dominated Congress, other states followed suit.
Juan Peron was elected president in south America in Argentina
The 7 states of the south that threatened to secede if Lincoln became President.