The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded.

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

State lawmaker wants to add security for Confederate monuments not just related to the Civil War. It comes as South Carolina deals with removal of some markers.

just a few months after South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union. The Confederate Army held onto Fort Sumter until 1865 when Union soldiers were finally victorious after a ...

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North and South Carolina in ... the first Southern state to secede from the Union, adding a palmetto tree to ...

During the three months between his election and the inauguration, much was to happen and tensions continued to build between the North and South. The South did not want Lincoln to be the President.