The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.

FB Financial Corp., the parent company of FirstBank, has entered into an agreement to buy Southern States Bancshares Inc ... This merger could be the first of many deals that impact Nashville's ...

The film outlines the early years of the American Civil War, starting with Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the subsequent secession of Southern states. It details the formation of ...

MOSCOW, April 25. /TASS/. The secession of certain states from the United States of America could be a distinct possibility, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev told ...

The commission’s responsibility would be to reevaluate and redraw state lines between the two ... The next push for secession came during the Civil War when some of Illinois’ southern counties ...