Most people associate secession with the Civil War but idea of disuniting the United States has crept into national ...

The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.

New England’s secession prospects collapsed with it. Fast-forward 45 years to Dec. 20, 1860, when South Carolina cut its ties with Washington. Ten other Southern states and parts of two others ...

The seceded states created the Confederate States ... His words were not simply aimed at the loyal southern states, however -- most white northerners were not interested in fighting to free ...

After the election of President Lincoln in 1860, seven southern states seceded and Civil War broke out, followed by four years of bloody fighting and the loss of 617,000 American lives.

Re “Let the Southern state secede” (Lettters, March 31): Apparently the liberal view is that our president can, by executive action, nationalize health care, banking and energy then execute ...