SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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there was mutual respect even though they disagreed on issues
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generally, there was mistrust between both parties due to the growing tensions of the union
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both parties got along considering the Republican party was still new
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the Republican party despised the democratic party because they were the party with the most power
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Detailed explanation-1: -Although the raid failed, it inflamed sectional tensions and raised the stakes for the 1860 presidential election. Brown’s raid helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible and thus became an important impetus of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -Harpers Ferry splintered the Democratic Party, scrambled the leadership of the Republicans and produced the conditions that enabled Republican Abraham Lincoln to defeat two Democrats and a third-party candidate in the presidential election of 1860.
Detailed explanation-3: -Though Brown did not intend it, his raid had furthered the split between northern and southern Democrats. Fire-Eaters vowed to prevent a northern Democrat, especially Illinois’s Stephen Douglas, from becoming their presidential candidate.
Detailed explanation-4: -In October 1859, the radical abolitionist John Brown and eighteen armed men, both Black and White, attacked the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. They hoped to capture the weapons there and distribute them among enslaved people to begin a massive uprising that would bring an end to slavery.