Due to the slavery debate, Northern support for the South began to wane in the 1850s. Lincoln's Republican party was able to take control of Congress and the White House in 1860 because of the Democratic Party's split into Northern and Southern sections. The South came to the realization that its partners in the Federal Government were no longer there.
The southern states opposed Abraham Lincoln's victory in the 1864 election. Lincoln was a Republican. Furthermore, the Republican Party was anti-slavery. Lincoln never expressed a desire to put an end to slavery in the South.
Lincoln was not on many southern ballots because there was no southern Republican Party to produce a ballot. States in the South were worried that Lincoln would abolish slavery. Radical southerners known as Fire Eaters called for southern independence in the 1850s if the Republican Party won the election.
Ottoman territories were forced to pay fines for damages during the war, but Austro-Hungarian territories were not punished in any way. ... Ottoman territories came under the control of Allied powers, but Austro-Hungarian territories gained the ability to establish their own governments
