On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded. By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- had split from the Union. The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator, as their provisional president.
According to infoplease, the number of colleges and universities located in the United States are as follows. * Public 4-year institutions 629 * Private 4-year institutions 1,845 * Public 2-year institutions 1,070 * Private 2-year institutions 596 * Total 4,14. 3 people found this useful.
There are nearly 130,000 individual institutions in the U.S. education system, including nearly 117,000 primary and secondary schools, nearly 6,000 postsecondary career and technical schools, and just under 4,000 degree-granting institutions of higher education.