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The first state to secede from the United States was South Carolina. This event occurred on December 20, 1860, following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president, which many Southern states viewed as a threat to the institution of slavery. South Carolina's secession marked the beginning of a series of separations that ultimately led to the Civil War.

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