They began to secede, starting with South Carolina. By the time Lincoln was inaugurated, six more had quit.
The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
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It was the United States government, to which Abraham Lincoln had been elected - minus the representatives of the Southern states that had broken away to form the Confederacy.
Lincoln served from 1861 to 1865; Johnston from 1865 to 1869. Grant took office in 1869. (The war ended in 1865.)
True; President Abraham Lincoln told the Southern states that the sanctity of the United States was of paramount importance and he would use military force to keep them from succession. This was nothing new however; some 25 years earlier, President Andrew Jackson told the same southern states the same thing.
The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
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The southern states.
Abraham Lincoln
No. Lincoln was the newly-elected President that the Southern states were rebelling against.
when Lincoln was elected president
Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 and states began to secede.
Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States. When some southern states decided to secede, they elected their own "president" Jefferson Davis. Lincoln remained President of the United States - all the United States - he just wasn't recognized as such by the southern states that seceded. He was not "President of the North".
Abraham Lincoln
Abolished slavery in MOST nourthern states
some southern states secede because of preisdent abrahim Lincoln
the southern states didn't agree with the unions government when Ab Lincoln was elected president because he didn't like slavery