Abraham Lincoln was elected as the U.S. president in November of Eighteen Sixty. He faced the most serious crisis in American history after he was ceremonially sworn in as president. The Lower South including South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas had finally acted on their earlier threats. They declared secession because of the issue of slavery. Since Republican Party opposed slavery, the Lower South was afraid that Abraham Lincoln, as a Republican, would abolish slavery later on. Even though Lincoln had promised that he would not repeal slavery, the Lower South could not believe him. To many of the people in the Lower South, it was the beginning of the South independence after Lincoln won the president
