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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.
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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.
The 1860 election of President Abraham Lincoln
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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.
The election of 1860, in which Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States, led to the secession of several southern states. Lincoln's anti-slavery platform and the Republican Party's stance against the expansion of slavery were seen as threats by southern states. Following his election, South Carolina was the first to secede in December 1860, followed by several other southern states, ultimately contributing to the onset of the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln
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.