Abraham Lincoln got 180 electoral votes
John C. Breckinridge got 72 electoral votes
John Bell got 39 electoral votes
Stephan A. Douglas got 12 electoral votes
4 presidential candidates won electoral votes
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In September 1620, during the reign of King James I, a group of around 100 English men and women—many of them members of the English Separatist Church later known to history as the Pilgrims—set sail for the New World aboard the Mayflower. Two months later, the three-masted merchant ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod, in present-day Massachusetts.
In late December, the Mayflower anchored at Plymouth Rock, where the pilgrims formed the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England. Though more than half of the original settlers died during that grueling first winter, the survivors were able to secure peace treaties with neighboring Native American tribes and build a largely self-sufficient economy within five years. Plymouth was the first colonial settlement in New England.
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question 1: They increased the territory of the US
question 2: Many Americans felt it was their God given right and duty to move westward and expand democracy
question 3: The land was needed to complete a railroad
