SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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Abraham Lincoln
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John Bell
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Stephen Douglas
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John C. Breckinridge
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Detailed explanation-1: -The United States presidential election of 1860 formalized the split in the Democratic Party and brought about the American Civil War. Stephen Douglas was the candidate for the Northern Democratic Party, and John C. Breckinridge represented the Southern Democratic Party.
Detailed explanation-2: -They nominated as presidential candidate Charles O’Conor, who declined their nomination by telegram; for vice president they nominated John Quincy Adams II. Without time to choose a substitute, the party ran the two candidates anyway.
Detailed explanation-3: -The 1852 United States presidential election was the 17th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1852. Democrat Franklin Pierce defeated Whig nominee General Winfield Scott. A third party candidate from the Free Soil party, John P.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated both the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace. Presidential election results map.