Slavery was the major issue in the 1860 election. The Republican Party platform promised not to interfere with slavery in the states, but opposed the further extension of slavery into the territories. Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. Abraham Lincoln received 180 electoral votes from 18 of the 33 states. Abraham Lincoln did not receive electoral votes from any southern state. Lincoln was not on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas declared its secession from the United States following the November 1860 election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency. The Civil War began with the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. After the Civil War began in April, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy.
There was a special legislative session in Georgia to consider seceding from the Union.
They left the Union and began forming the Confederates
Lincoln's election brought about secession from the United States and the formation of the Confederacy.
The presidential candidate who received the least votes in the South in the election of 1860 was John Bell.
the presidential election signaled that the south was losing its national political clout
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...victory of Lincoln in the November 1860 election.
election of 1860
What were some advantages of the South? What about North
They seceded after the election of 1860 because Lincoln didn't want to make anymore slave states. The south liked slavery and therefore, the south would not have any say in government. :)
in 1860
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the election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
DecemberDecember 20, 1860 (following the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency).