SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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Slavery
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Taxes
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Manifest Destiny
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Foreign Policy
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Detailed explanation-1: -Candidates for President in 1860 Divided over the slavery issue, the Democratic Party failed to nominate a candidate at its first convention. Eventually the Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas, Lincoln’s long time rival, while the Southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckinridge for president.
Detailed explanation-2: -Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The Northern Democratic Party was a leg of the Democratic Party during the 1860 presidential election, when the party split in two factions because of disagreements over slavery.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Democratic Party also split over the issue of slavery in the years leading to the Civil War, with some Northern Democrats adopting anti-slavery (“free soil”) positions that differed from pro-slavery Southern Democrats, who ultimately opted to leave the Senate in support of secession.