dec 24, 1860 - Secession of South Carolina
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When the ordinance was adopted on December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. ... — Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina, (December 24, 1860).
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