The division of the Democratic Party led to Lincoln’s victory in the election of 1860.
Explanation:
The presidential election in the United States in 1860 was the 19th presidential election in U.S. history, and it formed the backdrop for the Civil War. The nation had been divided since the 1850s around the individual states' right to self-government and the issue of slavery. The conflict peaked in 1860, and the formerly dominant Democratic Party was divided into a northern and a southern faction. This is also why they put two candidates to the election, Stephen A. Douglas of the Northern Democrats and John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats. This gave Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party the lead they needed, and Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States.
One source to Lincoln's victory in 1860 was the Lincoln-Douglas debates. See Explanation:)
Explanation:
During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln had shown himself to be a firm person as well as intellectual and honest, as in his nickname "Honest Abe." The Lincoln-Douglas debates were the debates for the Senate. Although Douglas ended up winning the U.S. Senate seat, Lincoln was popularized and when the election of 1860 came along, he won the election.
An interesting thing to note here is that Lincoln won the election of 1860 without even winning one vote from the south. The South disliked Lincoln because of his views opposing slavery, and when he won the election without one vote from the slave states, the south was both furious and scared because if Lincoln won the election without their say, then he could definitely get rid of slavery.
