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Which conclusion about the election of 1860 is BEST justified by the fact that there were four major candidates?
The root cause was the break-up of the old parties by the slavery question.
The Whigs split in 1856 and did not field a candidate. A new party, the Republicans was formed from northern Whigs and anti-slavery factions. The southern whigs and others Southerners formed a new Constitutional Union Party. The Democrats split into north and south and nominated two candidates.
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JudyBecause there were four parties which took part to the election:
The Constitutional Unionist Party, set up on May 9, 1860 by a handful of former "Whigs" and former adherents of the "Knownothing Organization", which didn't want to join the Republican Party. whose candidate was John Bell.
The Republican Party, whose candidate was Abraham Lincoln.
The Democratic Party which, splitting int two parts nominated two candidates:
Stephen Arnold Douglas who represented the moderate wing of the party and
John Cabell Breckenridge, who represented its radical, openly "pro- slavery" wing, which was baking the interests of the "Deep South's" States.
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