Let us assume that South Carolina retires upon the election of ... of duty exacted by the National treasury? The results of secession, independently of any armed coercion on the part of the ...

CHARLESTON, Tuesday, May 1, 1860. One of the most annoying things ... She was followed by Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Florida, and Georgia. Their protests had ...

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded ... From the beginning, there were factions who vehemently disagreed with secession and remained loyal to the Union. Many poor southern whites became ...

Lincoln won the presidential election in November 1860. But he would not actually ... tensions continued to build between the North and South. The South did not want Lincoln to be the President.

William Henry Gist, leader of South Carolina's secession movement ... the tour guide pointed out that the 1860 census did not ...

In December 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union in furor ... see that the new president is not its sickness, nor are secession and nullification its cures. Instead, California is becoming ...

By June, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina ... Louisiana’s secession wasn’t a given in 1860. The biggest city in the South was New Orleans, and she was a port city with strong ties to ...

A Republican presidential candidate endangering democracy, threatening the Constitution and such a menace to America he could foment a civil war?

During the next 80 years, South Carolina's agriculture and trade prospered. By 1860, however, tensions had risen over President Abraham Lincoln’s call to abolish slavery and restrict free trade ...

Secession had been threatened before 1860, by some New England states opposed to the War of 1812 and by South Carolina in the Nullification Crisis of 1832, but it finally arrived in December 1860.

The US presidential elections of recent years have been some of most contested – and divisive – in history. Here, historian ...

"The opening sentence alone…would not be out of place among the declarations of secession issued nearly 165 years ago." As if on cue, two weeks later, Daniel Miller, founder of the Texas ...