<P> During the presidential term of Andrew Jackson , South Carolina had its own semi-secession movement due to the 1828 `` Tariff of Abominations '' which threatened both South Carolina 's economy and the Union . Andrew Jackson also threatened to send federal troops to put down the movement and to hang the leader of the secessionists from the highest tree in South Carolina . Also due to this , Jackson 's vice president , John C. Calhoun , who supported the movement and wrote the essay `` The South Carolina Exposition and Protest '' , became the first US vice-president to resign . On May 1 , 1833 , Jackson wrote of nullification , `` the tariff was only a pretext , and disunion and southern confederacy the real object . The next pretext will be the negro , or slavery question . '' South Carolina also threatened to secede in 1850 over the issue of California 's statehood . It became the first state to declare its secession from the Union on December 20 , 1860 , with the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union and later joined with the other southern states in the Confederacy . </P>
<P> During the presidential term of Andrew Jackson , South Carolina had its own semi-secession movement due to the 1828 `` Tariff of Abominations '' which threatened both South Carolina 's economy and the Union . Andrew Jackson also threatened to send federal troops to put down the movement and to hang the leader of the secessionists from the highest tree in South Carolina . Also due to this , Jackson 's vice president , John C. Calhoun , who supported the movement and wrote the essay `` The South Carolina Exposition and Protest '' , became the first US vice-president to resign . On May 1 , 1833 , Jackson wrote of nullification , `` the tariff was only a pretext , and disunion and southern confederacy the real object . The next pretext will be the negro , or slavery question . '' South Carolina also threatened to secede in 1850 over the issue of California 's statehood . It became the first state to declare its secession from the Union on December 20 , 1860 , with the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union and later joined with the other southern states in the Confederacy . </P>
when did the first state secede from the union
when did the first state secede from the union
December 20 , 1860
December 20 , 1860