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Confederate States Form
The secession of South Carolina was followed by Georgia and other Southern states. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas all followed. The threat for North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Arkansas followed. These states all became the states to be the Confederacy, eventually fighting the Union in the Civil War. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln ran against Stephan Douglas. Douglas (Democrat) won more than 60% of the popular vote, but Lincoln (Republican) won the electoral college vote easily. John Breckenridge (Southern Democrat) and John Bell (Constitutional Union) also lost to Lincoln in the Electoral College. Lincoln got his 40% by carrying the Mason-Dixon line and the north of the Ohio River, plus the states of California and Oregon to the far west. -
Jefferson Davis inaugurated as President of Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first and only president of the Confederacy on February 18, 1861. This was after South Carolina and Georgia, and right after the other states joined them. The ceremony was in Montgomery, South Carolina, the first Confederate capitol.