Abraham Lincoln's election led to the southern states doing what?

A month after Lincoln was elected on November 6th 1860 South Carolina withdrew from the Union first, the sucession of the states are as follow...by Feb. 1861, 7 in all...South Carolina, Georgia, Flordia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisanna, and then Texas

Fort Sumter was the defining moment when the first shots were fired in the Civil War after that The Confederate's elected Jefferson Davis as their President. The Conferederate Sates of America is what they were called. I'll leave it at that.