USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The victory of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election triggered cries for disunion across the slaveholding South. The secession of South Carolina precipitated the outbreak of the American Civil War in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861.

Detailed explanation-2: -The secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of six more states-Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas–and the threat of secession by four more-Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America.

Detailed explanation-3: -Summary. The victory of Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 elections convinced South Carolina legislators that it was no longer in their state’s interest to remain in the Union. South Carolina declared its secession from the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -The U.S borders were split between the United States of America, Confederate States of America, Border States, and Territories. On February 4, 1861, the seven states that had seceded by this point convened and created the Confederate States of America under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.

Detailed explanation-5: -Confederate States of America, also called Confederacy, in the American Civil War, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865.