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- Lincoln Elected
- I won!
- The South Secedes
- All in favor of leaving, raise your right hand.
- Attempt at Compromise
- UNACCEPTABLE!
- I do not agree
- Lincoln was elected with a majority of the electoral votes, 180 out of 303. He only received 40% of the votes but that was more than every other candidate.
- The Confederacy
- The South threatened to leave the union and did, and they held a special convention and voted to secede
- Reactions to Secession
- John Crittenden made a compromise that they would protect slavery south of 36 30'N latitude. But no one was on board.
- Presidential Responses
- You aren't allowed to leave the union.
- Since South Carolina left the Union, other states wanted to join South Carolina. Which is what Texas, Lousiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia did.
- I'm leaving!
- We are joining you
- Most southerners welcomed secession and they rang bells and fired cannons and celebrated.
- Fire!
- James Buchanan sent a message to congress saying that the southern states couldn't leave the union. Since Lincoln wasn't president he couldn't do anything about it yet.
- Too bad, we are.
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