Let us assume that South Carolina retires upon the election of ... of duty exacted by the National treasury? The results of secession, independently of any armed coercion on the part of the ...

CHARLESTON, Tuesday, May 1, 1860. One of the most annoying things ... She was followed by Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Florida, and Georgia. Their protests had ...

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded ... From the beginning, there were factions who vehemently disagreed with secession and remained loyal to the Union. Many poor southern whites became ...

We must become critical consumers of history again. Our present-day society demands it. We as black historians and consumers have a new black power. We finally have a platform to give our studied ...

Lincoln won the presidential election in November 1860. But he would not actually ... tensions continued to build between the North and South. The South did not want Lincoln to be the President.

In December 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union in furor ... see that the new president is not its sickness, nor are secession and nullification its cures. Instead, California is becoming ...

By June, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina ... Louisiana’s secession wasn’t a given in 1860. The biggest city in the South was New Orleans, and she was a port city with strong ties to ...

During the next 80 years, South Carolina's agriculture and trade prospered. By 1860, however, tensions had risen over President Abraham Lincoln’s call to abolish slavery and restrict free trade ...

Yes, this is what Fire-Eater Southern Democrats said about former Congressman Abraham Lincoln during the 1860 presidential ... The Charleston, South Carolina, Mercury wrote, "a horrid looking ...

Secession had been threatened before 1860, by some New England states opposed to the War of 1812 and by South Carolina in the Nullification Crisis of 1832, but it finally arrived in December 1860.

"The opening sentence alone…would not be out of place among the declarations of secession issued nearly 165 years ago." As if on cue, two weeks later, Daniel Miller, founder of the Texas ...

President Temer has had a lot in his in-tray recently Voters in the south of Brazil have been asked in an informal vote whether they want to be part of a new country. The referendum was organised ...