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.
Link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170308231646/http://www.teachingushistory.org/lessons/Ordinance.htm
Source ID: 35