USA HISTORY

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: -Following the election of President Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860, becoming the first state to do so. Other states soon followed suit and America would never be the same…

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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".