As a consequence of Lincoln’s election, a special convention of the South Carolina legislature votes to secede from the Union.
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December 1860 - after Lincoln had been elected as the first president from the newly-formed Republican party.
The southerners hired a assassin to assassinate president Lincoln.
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The election of 1860. Abraham Lincoln was elected president. The south believed that he was going to abolish slavery. The south then began seceding from the union.
South Carolina seceded from the USA, followed by six others in the following weeks.