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What is the order of the following bleeding kansas secession of South Carolina the election of president Lincoln and formation of the confederat states of America?
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The Democratic Party was split into Northern, Free Soil Party and Southern, Know-Nothing Party. Anti-slavery Whigs, Free-Soilers Party members and, northern Democrats all joined in response by creating the Republican Party. Because of this Democratic split a Republican was sure to win the 1860 president election and Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected sixteenth President of the United States. After the 1860 president elections the South felt disassociated from Washington. South Carolina seceded on December 20th, 1860. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas soon followed. The American Civil War was the result...
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How did President Lincoln handle the issue of secession in his 1861 inaugural address?
President Abraham Lincoln spent a good portion of his 1861 inaugural address on the issue of secession. That part of his speech took the form of a detailed legal brief denying the constitutionality of secession. His words dovetailed the illegality of secession with his oath as president to hold, occupy and posses the property and places belonging to the US government. He equated secession with anarchy.
How many events led to the secession of southern states?
when Lincoln was elected president
Which event was the immediate cause of secession of several southern states from the Union in 1860?
election of president Lincoln
At the beginning of the Civil War President Abraham Lincoln favored?
quick military action to show the folly of secession.
How did southerner's justify secession?
They justified secession with the theory of states' rights.
Although he did not advocate immediate secession following Lincoln's election Davis accepted his state's decision to leave the Union With the formation of the Confederacy he hoped for a high milita?
the question is the answer
First vice President to become President by secession?
None.
What was the policy of Lincoln prior to secession during the secession crisis and when he became President?
Federal Right
Who was elected president of the southern after secession?
Jefferson Davis
President Lincoln's strategy regarding secession focused on?
Lincolnbelieved the Southern Secession should be met with force. Lincolnthought it was illegal.
First president to be elected by secession?
No President of the US can be said to have been "elected by secession", unless possibly Washington himself, if the states ratifying the 1787 Constitution are considered thereby to have "seceded" form the old Confederation, but this is a very questionable notion. Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederate States after their secession in 1861, but was of course never President of the US.
Was Andrew Jackson supportive of secession?
no since he was the only southern representative to not secede during the formation of the confederacy
How did President Lincoln handle the issue of secession in his 1861 inaugural address?
President Abraham Lincoln spent a good portion of his 1861 inaugural address on the issue of secession. That part of his speech took the form of a detailed legal brief denying the constitutionality of secession. His words dovetailed the illegality of secession with his oath as president to hold, occupy and posses the property and places belonging to the US government. He equated secession with anarchy.
Who declared South Carolina's secession from the Union illegal?
President Buchanan
Can a two term president serve in any position that is in secession to the presidency?
no
Who declared South Carolina's secession from the Union illegal.?
President Buchanan
What event turned the secession crisis into a civil war?
The election of Lincoln as president.
