GU. An unincorporated territory of the United States, the largest and most southerly of the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Inhabited since ancient times by the Chamorro people, Guam was visited by Magellan in 1521 and ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898. Agana is the capital.
The Republican victory in that election resulted in seven Southern states declaring their secession from the Union even before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. Both the outgoing and incoming U.S. administrations rejected secession, regarding it as rebellion.
The south seceded from the union because they believed in nullification, and the north did not. Nullification was a term for the individual state having the right to disregardâ¦ or override a federal law. This really came down to the northern states wanting to do away with slavery, and the south not wanting this.