SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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Question
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Which of these people ran for the Northern Democratic Party?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Stephen A. Douglas
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Frederick Douglass
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Northern Democratic candidates: Stephen Douglas, senator from Illinois. James Guthrie, former treasury secretary from Kentucky.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eventually the Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas, Lincoln’s long time rival, while the Southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckinridge for president.
Detailed explanation-3: -Douglas staunchly supported U.S. territorial expansion and desired a transcontinental railroad, a free land/homestead policy, and the formal organization of U.S. territories. It was these desires that led to Douglas’s most famous piece of legislation: the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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