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Lincoln carried the more populous Northern states. Stephen A. Douglas(Northern Democrat), John Breckinridge(Southern Democrat), and John Bell(Constitutional Union) divided the Southern states.
Lincoln had 180 electoral votes, Douglas had 12, Breckinridge had 72, and Bell had 39.
In 1860 Lincoln won in 17 States: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota Oregon and California.
Lincoln did not win any Southern states in 1860. His name was not even on the ballot in most of them.
President Lincoln won 17 states in the election of 1860.
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Many events contributed to several Southern states seceding from the Union in 1860. One important event was the election of Lincoln.
Lincoln's opponent in the 1860 election
The disagreement about whether or not it was ok to keep slaves is the reason the South seceded formally from the Union of States. The Civil War began because the South wanted to keep their slaves, but the North was trying to do away with the practice.
Because not a single Southern state went for Lincoln and he represented a threat to their very nature of life.
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's election would spell an end to slavery, so the southern states refused to add him.
The southern states made the assumption that Lincoln would make slavery illegal.
The most immediate result of Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860 was that many Southern states seceded from the Union. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States.
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The 1860 election of President Abraham Lincoln
Many events contributed to several Southern states seceding from the Union in 1860. One important event was the election of Lincoln.
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election of president Lincoln
No. Democratic Party candidate James Buchanan won the 1856 presidential election. Buchanan won 19 states including all of the southern states. The southern states seceded after Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election.
Lincoln vowed to outlaw slavery