# data[].attributes.headline
December 20, 1860 South Carolina Secedes From the Union

# data[].attributes.subject
December 20, 1860 South Carolina Secedes From the Union

# data[].attributes.body
Believing that the government fail to uphold the Fugitive Slave Act and the Election of President Lincoln, South Carolina was the 1st state to secede.

# data[].attributes.body
The Civil War officially began when Confederate soldiers attacked Union forces at Fort Sumter in South Carolina

# data[].attributes.body
The Civil War came to an end in the Spring of 1865 after Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse.