SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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Illinoise
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Kentuckey
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Florida
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Tennessee
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lincoln won the Electoral College with less than 40 percent of the popular vote nationwide by carrying states above the Mason–Dixon line and north of the Ohio River, plus the states of California and Oregon in the Far West.
Detailed explanation-2: -The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party’s nomination for President, he sketched his life: “I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky.
Detailed explanation-3: -The national outcome of the 1860 election gave Lincoln a victory in both the popular vote and the electoral vote, with just under 40 percent of the popular vote, which totaled 1, 866, 452, and 180 electoral votes.
Detailed explanation-4: -This is the electoral history of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln served one term in the United States House of Representatives from Illinois (1847–1849). He later served as the 16th president of the United States (1861–1865).