Industrial Age · North America · Politics
1860
South Carolina Secedes
December 20, 1860
In Charleston, a convention voted unanimously to dissolve South Carolina's union with the United States. Six more Deep South states followed within weeks, and in February they formed the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis at their head. Lincoln, still a private citizen in Springfield, watched his country break.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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