1. State vs. Federal Rights
South Carolina thought that there would be plans fostered by Radical Republicans to limit and eventually abolish slavery. Even though it was not a power explicitly awarded to the Federal government in the Constitution.
2. Social Differences
The North was economically different from the South. The Southern States did not believe that the federal government had their best interests in mind. One of these differences was the use of slaves on large plantations, but it's influence was minimal. A large part was the difference in industry, with the North's economy being largely based on manufacturing, and the South's on agriculture.
The election of President Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, was a huge factor in the decision by South Carolina to secede.
Just prior to the American Civil War, South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, doing so on December 20, 1860. Its reason for doing so, as was the case for most of the other states that also seceded, was simply to preserve its way of life. With the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of the Union, the Southern way of life seemed preservable to South Carolinians only through secession from that Union.
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first Southern state to declare its secession and later formed the Confederacy.
One month after South Carolina seceded from the union TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, and FL seceded.
Only one state seceded in 1860, South Carolina.
South Carolina
South Carolina seceded from the Union before the Civil War.
South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860, becoming the first state to secede from the Union.
In 1860 South Carolina seceded from the union
South Carolina was so debistated that they seceded from the Union.
Based on the election of Abraham Lincoln to the US presidency, South Carolina left the Union on December 20, 1860.
At the start of the U.S. Civil War, South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860.
South Carolina
As a consequence of Lincoln’s election, a special convention of the South Carolina legislature votes to secede from the Union.
Abraham Lincoln the south seceded from the union because he was elected president.