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Southern states begin to secede from the U.S. and form the Confederacy to protect slavery.
Date: 1860
Slavery
War & massacres
After Abraham Lincoln is elected president, thereby bringing the new Republican Party into power, Southern states begin to secede in response to increasing pressure for abolition.
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