How did the election of 1860 lead to the formation of the confederate states of America?

Answer 1

The Election of 1860 contributed to the Civil War because after President Abraham Lincoln was elected he stated that where slavery existed it can continue, but he will not allow it to spread every where. the whole USA What mainly started the Civil War was the south seceding or leaving from The UR'S They felt as if the government was getting to strong. They claim that they had no choice but to leave. The word then got around to President Lincoln. He then said that he would fight to keep the south. The Northerners had soldiers already. The South was getting theirs together. The Northerners were soldiers on Southern Land and that is when the Civil War Started. The Civil War was the bloodiest and the only war on the Land of America. By: DeAndre James @ Perspectives Charter Middle School

Answer 2

The erection of 1860 grew the southern states fear of what a republican president would do to their lifestyle depending on slavery. This led the slave states to seceed from the union effedctively starting the civil war. Also PENIS

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

The election was won for the first time by the Republicans, and its leader Abraham Lincoln refused to allow any extension of slavery.

The Southern states assumed that the cotton revenues would support a new nation, and decided to break away from the Union.

Answer 5

It registered the country's precarious condition after a decade of sectional turmoil

Answer 6

-When Lincoln took the presidency, some Southern states seceded from the Union.