The final situation that plunged the United States into the Civil War was Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860. Due to the dramatic sectionalism that was dividing the country, four presidential candidates ran for office in 1860. These men were Abraham Lincoln, John Breckenridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas. Because of the issue of slavery, Northern and Southern Democrats split into two parties with the nominee for the North being Stephen Douglas and the nominee for the South was John Breckenridge. John Bell was the candidate for the Constitutional Union Party whose primary concern was to avoid secession. Lincoln was the nominee of the Republican Party, a party that began in 1854 and whose primary goal was to prevent the expansion of slavery. Georgia would ultimately stand with candidate John Breckenridge. Lincoln was not on the ballot in Georgia as he was not in most southern states Lincoln won the election of 1860 with 180 electoral votes (152 electoral votes were needed to win at that time). After the election, the southern states, believing that Lincoln’s ultimate goal was to end slavery, voted one by one to secede from the Union. Georgia, after a three-day debate, voted to leave the Union on January 19, 1861.
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Questions
What cause the Democrats to be split in the voting?
What was the goal of the Confederate Union?
What was the goal of the Republican party?
Why did Georgia and the southern states keep Lincoln off the ballot?
How did Lincoln's actual goals differ from that of the southerns?
How would Georgia be different if Abraham Lincoln stuck to his original plan? Could he have prevented War?
What was the goal of the Confederate Union?
What was the goal of the Republican party?
Why did Georgia and the southern states keep Lincoln off the ballot?
How did Lincoln's actual goals differ from that of the southerns?
How would Georgia be different if Abraham Lincoln stuck to his original plan? Could he have prevented War?