SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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Joined or included
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Separated or left
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Declared war
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voted
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Detailed explanation-1: -In December 1860, political leaders in South Carolina held a special convention to discuss seceding from the union of the states. Secession means to formally withdraw from a federation. A vote to secede would mean that South Carolina would no longer be a part of the United States of America.
Detailed explanation-2: -The secession of South Carolina precipitated the outbreak of the American Civil War in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861.
Detailed explanation-3: -The declaration stated the primary reasoning behind South Carolina’s declaring of secession from the U.S., which was described as “increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the Institution of Slavery".
Detailed explanation-4: -To secede is to go your own way, breaking off ties. Usually, this refers to one part of a country that wants to become independent, like the South during the U.S. Civil War. The Latin word secedere means “go apart” and that’s where secede comes from.
Detailed explanation-5: -On 20 December 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union. The first shots were fired 9 January 1861 by Citadel cadets on a merchant ship taking supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The April 1861 bombardment of Fort Sumtercaused the official start of the Civil War.