Question

How was the result of the election of 1860 different from the earlier election results?

Answer 1

Answer:

U.S. presidential election of 1860, American election in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C.

Answer 2

In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, absent from the ballot in ten slave states, won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes.