dec 20, 1860 - Secession and Confederacy
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Fearing that Lincoln’s election signaled the end of slavery, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union, in Deember 1860. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana followed in January 1861. In February the states of the lower South established a new government, the Confederate States of America, and drafted a constitution. Although modeled on the US Constitution, the Confederate document specifically referred to slavery, state sovereignty, and God. It explicitly guaranteed slavery in the states and territories but prohibited the international slave trade.
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