SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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to withdraw from a political union (in this case, the United States) (South Carolina and other states did this to become the Confederacy)
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secede
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union on December 20, 1860. The victory of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election triggered cries for disunion across the slaveholding South.
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: -secession, in U.S. history, the withdrawal of 11 slave states (states in which slaveholding was legal) from the Union during 1860–61 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president. Secession precipitated the American Civil War.
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