As soon as the result was in, South Carolina seceded from the United States.
because it did.
November 6, 1860.
Four days after Lincoln's election, South Carolina called for a special convention to consider secession.
because they thought that he was going to keep slavery
He won almost all of north’s electoral votes
Because they thought he would trick the southern leaders
It made victory for the Republican party inevitable.
Lincoln's Democratic opponent in the election of 1864 was General George McClellan.
Union Party
One by one, the seceded from the union and formed the Confederate States on America.
Andrew Johnson, who became president upon Lincoln's death , ran with Lincoln in 1864.
Nobody really welcomed the civil war... There were things that led up to it like the slavery issue and Lincolns election. The main thing was Lincolns electoin because states in the south started to secced from the union.