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Four days after Lincoln's election, South Carolina called for a special convention to consider secession.
It made victory for the Republican party inevitable.
Slavery and the secession of the Southern States
because it did.
November 6, 1860.
The issues that led to the secession had been festering for a long time, but it was the election of Abraham Lincoln that precipitated the secession.
The election of Abraham Lincoln who promised not to disturb slavery in the states where it existed lead the southern states to secede because of his affiliation with the north. The southern states did not trust Lincoln viewing him as antislavery and too close to northern interest.
The election of Lincoln as president.
Slavery and the election of Abraham Lincoln
the election of Abraham Lincoln.
As soon as the result was in, South Carolina seceded from the United States.
The South thought that Lincoln would free all of the slaves, and that is what the Southern economy relied on. The election of Lincoln in 1864 also saw the election of new, mainly abolitionist members of Congress, and many Southern states had already moved toward secession from the Union.