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An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and other States, or the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession

Author: South Carolina

Date: 20/12/1860

Countries: United States of America, Confederate States of America

Topics: Secession Crisis, American Civil War

Description: This is South Carolina's Orinance of Secession, which theoretically split all ties between it and the United States of America

Source: Constitutional Convention (1860-1862). South Carolina Ordinance of Secession, 20 December 1860. Constitutional and Organic Papers. S 131053. South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20170308231646/http://www.teachingushistory.org/lessons/Ordinance.htm

Source ID: 35