Trivia: What was the first state to secede from the Union after Lincolns election?
Florida
Texas
Arkansas
South Carolina
The correct answer is South Carolina
So why is this answer correct? : The presidential election of 1860 between Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breckinridge was a head-on collision of two differing views of America. After Lincoln won the race, South Carolina seceded on December 20, 1860. Within a month, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia also left the Union, and the Civil War soon followed.