There was a divided field of four candidates.
he won almost all of the north electoral votes
There was a divided field of four candidates.
December 1860, when South Carolina seceded, in reaction to Lincoln's election win.
Lincoln's election win in 1860 - it meant there would be no new slave states, so if the South did not secede, they would always be outvoted in Congress.
Lincoln's election win in 1860. After that, there was one last attempt at compromise, but Lincoln rejected this because it would have allowed some extension of slavery.
Because the Democratic party had split into two wings, North and South.
Southern states claimed that their right to own slaves was being threatened by the federal government, particularly with the election of Abraham Lincoln as president. They believed secession was necessary to preserve their economic and social system based on slavery.
There was a divided field of four candidates.
In the 1860 presidential election, Lincoln did not win in the State of Kentucky. The winner there was John Breckenridge.
Lincoln won the presidential election in 1860 because the states were in disarray and divided. This allowed the Democrats to have the upper hand in the election.
He won two. First one was in 1860, then again in 1864.
Lincoln was elected for the first time in November of 1860.
States in the South seceded from the Union (apex)
Neither was strong enough to win. The Republicans were bound to win, after the Democrat Party split in two.
Secession was their response to Lincoln's win of November 1860 (first win by the Republican party).
The Democrats had split into two factions - a North and a South wing - so the newly-formed Republican Party was bound to win the 1860 election. Lincoln had been nominated as its first presidential candidate because he was moderate on slavery.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, & Indiana
His supporters were in states with a lot of electoral votes.(Apex)
December 1860, when South Carolina seceded, in reaction to Lincoln's election win.