| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Following Lincoln's victory over the divided Democratic Party on November 7, South Carolina immediately initiated secession proceedings and, on December 20, its legislature passed 169-0 the Ordinance of Secession, which declared that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.?? After the declaration, Sou
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