Which statements about the national results of the presidential election of 1860 are accurate? Check all that apply.
A. John C. Breckinridge did not win any Southern states.
B. Abraham Lincoln won the election.
C. John Bell won the election.
D. Abraham Lincoln did not win any Southern states.
E. Abraham Lincoln won a majority of free states.
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United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on November 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. The electoral split between Northern and Southern Democrats was emblematic of the severe sectional split, particularly over slavery, and in the months following Lincoln’s election (and before his inauguration in March 1861) seven Southern states, led by South Carolina on December 20, 1860, seceded, setting the stage for the American Civil War (1861–65).
American presidential election, 1860
American presidential election, 1860
Results of the American presidential election, 1860
Presidential Candidate Political Party Electoral Votes Popular Votes
Abraham Lincoln Republican 180 1,866,452
John C. Breckinridge Southern Democratic 72 847,953
Stephen A. Douglas Democratic 12 1,380,202
John Bell Constitutional Union 39 590,901
Sources: Electoral and popular vote totals based on data from the United States Office of the Federal Register and Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections, 4th ed. (2001).
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United States presidential election of 1860
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DATE
November 6, 1860
PARTICIPANTS
John Bell
John C. Breckinridge
Stephen A. Douglas
Edward Everett
Hannibal Hamlin
Abraham Lincoln
Joseph Lane
Herschel Vespasian Johnson
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Constitutional Union Party
Democratic Party
Republican Party
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The Conventions
Following on the heels of the Dred Scott decision of 1857, in which the U.S. Supreme Court voided the Missouri Compromise (1820), thus making slavery legal in all U.S. territories, the election of 1860 was sure to further expose sectional differences between those, especially (but not solely) in the North, who wanted to abolish slavery and those who sought to protect the institution. The Democratic Party held its convention in April–May 1860 in Charleston, S.C., where a disagreement over the official party policy on slavery prompted dozens of delegates from Southern states to withdraw. Unable to nominate a candidate (Sen. Stephen A. Douglas received a majority of the delegates’ support but could not amass the required two-thirds majority needed for nomination), Democrats held a second convention in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 18–23, though many of the Southern delegates failed to attend. At Baltimore the Democrats nominated Douglas, who easily defeated Kentuckian John C. Breckinridge, the sitting vice president of the United States. Trying to unite Northern and Southern Democrats, the convention then turned for vice president first to Sen. Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama, who declined nomination, and eventually to Herschel V. Johnson, a former U.S. senator and former governor of Georgia, who was chosen as Douglas’s running mate. Disaffected Democrats, largely Southerners, then nominated Breckinridge, with Sen. Joseph Lane of Oregon as his running mate. Both Douglas and Breckinridge claimed to be the official Democratic candidates.
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