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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.


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What did South Carolina do after Abraham Lincoln was elected?

South Carolina had a long record of not liking Federal interference in their affairs. They were also a strong slave minded state. When the antislavery Republican, Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, South Carolina seceded from the US. This happened on December 20, 1860.


How did South Carolina react to the election of 1860?

When President Lincoln was elected president in 1860, much of the south reacted. Even before Lincoln took office, South Carolina called a convention in the south and delegates voted to secede, thus spurring the Civil War that would follow.


Who was elected president in 1860 causing the South to secede?

Lincoln


When did South Carolina pass an order of secession?

December 1860 - after Lincoln had been elected as the first president from the newly-formed Republican party.


South Carolina seceded from the Union in late 1860 in reaction to the?

...victory of Lincoln in the November 1860 election.


What event led South Carolina's leaders to secede from the Union?

The election of Lincoln in 1860. He would not allow any new slave-states, so the South knew they would always be outvoted in Congress.


Did South Carolina secede when Lincoln was 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.


Lincoln was elected president in year what?

1860 was the year that Lincoln was elected president for the first time. He was elected again in 1864.


What was South Carolina Secedes?

South Carolina voted to secede from the USA in December 1860, because the election had been won by Lincoln on a ticket of no new slave-states, so the South was doomed to be outvoted in Congress. By the time Lincoln was inaugurated in March, six more states had joined South Carolina in the Confederate States of America.


The secession of South Carolina from the Union in 1860 was prompted by?

the election of Abraham Lincoln as President.


Who was elected president when South Carolina and 6 other states seceded in 1860?

Abraham Licoln.


What year was Lincoln elected?

in 1860