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As a consequence of Lincoln’s election, a special convention of the South Carolina legislature votes to secede from the Union.
South Carolina threatened to secede in 1833 with the Nullification Act.
South Carolina seceded prior to the start of the American Civil War, but it was the first state to do so.
The state of South Carolina seceded from the USA, followed by six others before Lincoln's inauguration.
The southerners hired a assassin to assassinate president Lincoln.