American Civil War · TURNING POINT ·
Secession of South Carolina (1860)
On the American Civil War map as “Secession”
20 Dec 1860 — South Carolina’s convention votes 169–0 to leave the Union, citing in its own declaration “an increasing hostility… to the institution of slavery.” Six more states follow by February.
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- Secession crisis and Fort Sumter (chapter 3 of American Civil War)
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- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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