12/20/1860 AD seceded from
South Carolina becomes the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. James Buchanan, the United States president, declared the ordinance illegal but did not act to stop it.
On November 10, 1860 the S.C. General Assembly called for a "Convention of the People of South Carolina" to consider secession. Delegates were to be elected on December 6.
The secession convention convened in Columbia on December 17 and voted unanimously, 169-0, to declare secession from the United States. The convention then adjourned to Charleston to draft an ordinance of secession. When the ordinance was adopted on December 20, 1860,
Charleston, SC
Lattitude: 32.7765° N
Longitude: 79.9311° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
Lattitude: 32.7765° N
Longitude: 79.9311° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
Subjects Who or What seceded from?
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South Carolina (SC) Nation
Objects To Whom or What was seceded from?
Events in 1860 MORE
