how long was the election of 1860 ?

Question

and what was the outcome of it i really need help im doin this homework thats worth 50 points and if i dont do this i will fail :(

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The Election of 1860 was as important of an election as we had in our country up to this time. It pitted four candidates.The Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, the Democrats split between northern Democrats and southern Democrats with Stephen Douglas for the North and John C. Breckinridge for the South and John Bell of the Constitutional Party. With the Democrats basically divided by 3 candidates the only thing tostop Lincoln was a less than 50% +1 in the electoral college. Lincoln received 39.6% of the vote and all but 3 electoral votes in the North for 180 of 303 electoral votes. Douglas who received the 2nd most popular votes received only 12 electoral votes. Bell won the border states of the Civil War and 39 electoral votes and Breckinridge won the Confederate South and 72 electoral votes except for Missouri for Douglas. It was the election which caused the Civil War due to a Lincoln victory . Shortly thereafter , South Carolina seceded from the Union and 10 other Confederate states would follow in early 1861. Lincoln had no intention of ending slavery except by natural death in not allowing it in the territories and this would econmically strangle it to death but he would not force the issue. The South refused to take the election of Lincoln lightly and the flames of war were ignited by the firing of Fort Sumter and the immediate call for 75000 volunteers by Lincoln to preserve the Union. The thing the South would worry about the most would be the Emancipation Proclamation and the change of northern attitude and initiative in regards to the meaning of a Civil War win by the North would do to the South and its Reconstruction consequences .