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He said he would enforce federal laws in every state. And he promised not to surrender any federal property in the states that seceded.

If Scotland seceded the rest of the Union would still remain as a state, just without all the stuff pertaining to Scotland.

but, after the South seceded, there was no political reason to tolerate slavery.

The key to Lincoln's policy toward the states that had seceded may be found in a passage of his First Inaugural, delivered on March 4, 1861.

Six days after South Carolina seceded from the Union, the commander of Charleston's forts decided to move his men to Fort Sumter.

However, when Virginia seceded in April 1861, he supported the Confederacy, showing his loyalty to his state over the federal government.

To be sure, that generation of Americans that seceded from British rule in the late-18th century took the imperative of liberty as a given.

Sources within the Serbian government gave warning that they would begin implementing an "action plan" against Kosovo as soon as it seceded.

Then, in 1998, the neighbouring region on Somalia's northeastern tip, known as Puntland, also seceded and declared itself independent.

Kosovo seceded two years ago and is recognized by 70 nations as an independent country.

Over the next four months, as Russia and other republics seceded, the Soviet Union fell apart.

It was quick to recognise oil-rich South Sudan when it seceded in July, having sent observers to monitor its referendum on independence.

When the Serbian province seceded from Belgrade in February, South Ossetia was quick to reassert its own claim to international recognition.

But following a referendum in January, the oil-rich south of his country has seceded.

In effect, the state unilaterally seceded from the rest of the country, refusing entry to their fellow Americans and criminalising them.

Lincoln took office just months after seven Southern states had seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.

The american colony seceded from Great Britain in 1776 and formed the U. S. A.

When the South seceded, Sherman--West Point, 1840--was superintendent of a military college that is now Louisiana State University.

Four years later, flourishing and rich, the city seceded from expanding, unruly Detroit.

Nine States seceded from the Union government and established their own confederate government.

Perhaps wisely, other budding rulers have followed Bangladesh's example and seceded.

Within weeks, the republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania seceded from the Soviet Union. The entire U.

Estonia reclaimed its independence and seceded from the Soviet Union.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861.

1965 - Singapore seceded from the newly-formed Federation of Malaysia.

Mississippi seceded from the Union.

When Mississippi seceded from the Union, however, Davis became a Confederate man.

When the first southern states seceded in 1861, Tyler led a compromise movement;

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