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Abraham Lincoln is elected sixteenth president of the United States, the first Republican president in the nation who represents a party that opposes the spread of slavery in the territories of the United States.
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The first Secession Convention meets in Columbia, South Carolina.
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South Carolina secedes from the Union.
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