How might Abraham Lincoln's victory in the 1860 election lead to future problems?

Answer 1

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 2

Abraham Lincoln's victory in the 1860 election led to future problems primarily because it intensified tensions between the North and the South over the issue of slavery. The Southern states saw Lincoln as a threat to their way of life, leading to their eventual secession and the start of the Civil War. Additionally, Lincoln's policies and actions during the war, such as the Emancipation Proclamation, further deepened the divide between the North and the South and laid the foundation for post-war Reconstruction challenges.