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   May 22, 2024 · S outh Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, as a result of actions taken on December 24, 1860, by a state convention called in response to Abraham Lincoln’s election as president. The South Carolina convention argued that the doctrine of secession was justified in view of states’ role in founding the U.S. Constitution.

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   An official secession convention met in South Carolina following the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, on a platform opposing the expansion of slavery into U.S. territories. [4] On December 20, 1860, the convention issued an ordinance of secession announcing the state's withdrawal from the union. [5]

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   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. Citing “an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding states to the ...

5. www.ushistory.org › us › 32eThe South Secedes [ushistory.org]

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   The South Secedes. Crowds gathered in front of the Capitol building in Montgomery, Alabama, the day that the secession bill was passed. The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was ...

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   Dec 19, 2017 · The people of the state of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, A.D., 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States, by the federal government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the states, fully justified this state in then withdrawing from the federal Union ...

7. www.nps.gov › 000 › south-carolina-secessionSouth Carolina Secession - U.S. National Park Service

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   Feb 17, 2024 · The secession of South Carolina precipitated the outbreak of the American Civil War in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861. South Carolina had theatened secession before 1860. After the ratification of the US Constitution, fears grew in the South over time of a strong central government. Charles Pinckney, a vocal critic of the Articles of ...

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   Why did South Carolina secede?

   • S outh Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, as a result of actions taken on December 24, 1860, by a state convention called in response to Abraham Lincoln’s election as president. The South Carolina convention argued that the doctrine of secession was justified in view of states’ role in founding the U.S. Constitution.

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   Why did the South Carolina secession convention take place?

   • An official secession convention met in South Carolina following the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, on a platform opposing the expansion of slavery into U.S. territories. [ 4 ] On December 20, 1860, the convention issued an ordinance of secession announcing the state's withdrawal from the union. [ 5 ]

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   When did South Carolina consider secession?

   • On November 10, 1860, only days after Lincoln’s election to the presidency, the South Carolina General Assembly called for a convention of the people of the state to consider secession, members of which were elected early the next month.

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   Why did South Carolina secession lead to the Civil War?

   • The secession of South Carolina precipitated the outbreak of the American Civil War in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861. South Carolina had theatened secession before 1860. After the ratification of the US Constitution, fears grew in the South over time of a strong central government.

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   Why was secession justified in South Carolina?

   • South Carolina’s Declaration of the Causes of Secession maintained that secession was justified because “fourteen of the states have deliberately refused, for years past, to fulfill their constitutional obligations.” Which constitutional obligations had these states failed to discharge, according to South Carolina’s convention?

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   Why did South Carolina dissolve the United States of America?

   • On December 20, 1860, by a vote of 169-0, the South Carolina legislature enacted an "ordinance" that "the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of 'The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." As Gist had hoped, South Carolina's action resulted in conventions in other southern states.

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9. www.battlefields.org › learn › primary-sourcesThe Declaration of Causes of Seceding States | American ...

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   South Carolina. Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union The people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, A.D., 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States, by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of ...