Confederate States Secede from the Union
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Military History
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, American Civil War
- Curriculum: American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877)
- Geographical Location: Alabama
- Date: December 20, 1860
Article abstract: The beginning of the American Civil War marks one of the darkest periods of the Union’s history.
Summary of Event
On December 20, 1860, the delegates of the Convention of the People of South Carolina voted 160 to 0 to adopt an ordinance of secession dissolving the “union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other States under the name of ‘United States of America.’ ” The South Carolinians, wishing to maintain their radical leadership of the South, had moved quickly to take the initiative in the secession movement....
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