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Megan K
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Explain the election and explain how it led to the civil war, please?
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xtinaislove
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Presidency and the Civil War
Main article: Origins of the American Civil War
With the emergence of the Republicans as the nation's first major sectional party by the mid-1850s, politics became the stage on which sectional tensions were played out. Although much of the West – the focal point of sectional tensions – was unfit for cotton cultivation, Southern secessionists read the political fallout as a sign that their power in national politics was rapidly weakening. Before, the slave system had been buttressed to an extent by the Democratic Party, which was increasingly seen as representing a more pro-Southern position that unfairly permitted Southerners to prevail in the nation's territories and to dominate national policy before the Civil War. But they suffered a significant reverse in the electoral realignment of the mid-1850s. 1860 was a critical election that marked a stark change in existing patterns of party loyalties among groups of voters; Abraham Lincoln's election was a watershed in the balance of power of competing national and parochial interests and affiliations.
Secession winter 1860–1861
Main articles: Baltimore Plot and Cornerstone Speech
As Lincoln's election became more likely, secessionists made it clear that their states would leave the Union. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead. By February 1, 1861, South Carolina was followed by six other cotton-growing states in the deep South. The seven states soon declared themselves to be a new nation, the Confederate States of America. The upper South (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Arkansas) listened to, but initially rejected, the secessionist appeal. President Buchanan and President-elect Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy.
I literally copied and pasted that from the Wikipedia article on Abraham Lincoln.
It always amazes me that people ask yahoo answers before wikipedia
Main article: Origins of the American Civil War
With the emergence of the Republicans as the nation's first major sectional party by the mid-1850s, politics became the stage on which sectional tensions were played out. Although much of the West – the focal point of sectional tensions – was unfit for cotton cultivation, Southern secessionists read the political fallout as a sign that their power in national politics was rapidly weakening. Before, the slave system had been buttressed to an extent by the Democratic Party, which was increasingly seen as representing a more pro-Southern position that unfairly permitted Southerners to prevail in the nation's territories and to dominate national policy before the Civil War. But they suffered a significant reverse in the electoral realignment of the mid-1850s. 1860 was a critical election that marked a stark change in existing patterns of party loyalties among groups of voters; Abraham Lincoln's election was a watershed in the balance of power of competing national and parochial interests and affiliations.
Secession winter 1860–1861
Main articles: Baltimore Plot and Cornerstone Speech
As Lincoln's election became more likely, secessionists made it clear that their states would leave the Union. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead. By February 1, 1861, South Carolina was followed by six other cotton-growing states in the deep South. The seven states soon declared themselves to be a new nation, the Confederate States of America. The upper South (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Arkansas) listened to, but initially rejected, the secessionist appeal. President Buchanan and President-elect Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy.
I literally copied and pasted that from the Wikipedia article on Abraham Lincoln.
It always amazes me that people ask yahoo answers before wikipedia
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Jake K
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Many Southerners feared that Lincoln would have wanted to outlaw slavery. This made them paranoid and was their "last straw" in a series of events. ( fights for states' rights, etc. ) The Southern states ceeded, or broke away from the US, to become the Confederacy. This led to the Civil War.
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Andrew
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To put it simply, there were 4 main candidates.
2 From the Upper South (Tennessee and Kentucky)
2 From the North (Illinois)
- Stephen Douglas was a fan of popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery. Note, he is not anti-slavery
- Abraham Lincoln is the only candidate without Southern sympathies (debatable) and also has abolitionist tendencies
When Lincoln was elected, this was the last straw and South Carolina seceded as a direct result.
2 From the Upper South (Tennessee and Kentucky)
2 From the North (Illinois)
- Stephen Douglas was a fan of popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery. Note, he is not anti-slavery
- Abraham Lincoln is the only candidate without Southern sympathies (debatable) and also has abolitionist tendencies
When Lincoln was elected, this was the last straw and South Carolina seceded as a direct result.