California’s admission would disrupt the sectional balance either as a free or slave state. Southern “fire-eaters” demanded secession if CA became “free.”
UNIT 4 “A Nation Divided” The Civil War& Reconstruction.
Chapter 15
1 Secession and the Start of the War After the election of Lincoln in 1860, South Carolina passed a secession ordinance on December 20, 1860. Abraham Lincoln.
