Republican Party candidate John Fremont won 11 northern states in the 1856 presidential election .
Republican Party candidate John Fremont won 11 northern states in the 1856 presidential election.
You are John C. Frémont. He was the first Republican Party candidate for president in 1856 and won several northern states.
The northern Democrats supported Stephen A. Douglas for President in 1860, but the southern Democrats withheld support for Douglas. The South demanded that Douglas repudiate the Freeport Doctrine and support a federal slave law. The Douglas supporters pointed out that to do that would drive the northern Democrats into the Republican Party.
Abraham Lincoln.
The Democratic Party was split into Northern, Free Soil Party and Southern, Know-Nothing Party. Anti-slavery Whigs, Free-Soilers Party members and, northern Democrats all joined in response by creating the Republican Party. Because of this Democratic split a Republican was sure to win the 1860 president election and Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected sixteenth President of the United States. After the 1860 president elections the South felt disassociated from Washington. South Carolina seceded on December 20th, 1860. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas soon followed. The American Civil War was the result...
It was controversial because the new Republican Party (of which Lincoln was the first President) was generally favourable to Northern interests. The effect was that South Carolina immediately seceded from the Union, followed by the other Southern states.
No countries of the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland) have a President.
Stephen A. Douglas, US senator from Illinois was their candidate in 1860.
Stephen A. Douglas, US senator from Illinois was their candidate in 1860.
The Confederacy viewed Abraham Lincon's election as a threat. They knew that he might abolish slavery. One interesting fact, though, is that he only abolished slavery in the Confederacy, the states that were in rebellion. After the war, however, it became law for the now-reunited United States.
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Lincoln was in the Republican Party (like the majority of the Northern States). However, the Republican Party during Lincoln's time was very different than the Republicans now.