John Bell, the Constitutional Party candidate for president represented the border state of Tennessee.
<span>John C. Breckinridge, the then incumbent Vice-President, a native of Kentucky, was the Southern Democrats' candidate for president. </span>
<span>Stephen Arnold Douglas - The incumbent Senator from Illinois, was the Northern Democrats' candidate. </span>
<span>Abraham Lincoln, from Illinois, was the Republican party nominee for President. </span>
<span>Lincoln received 180 Electoral Votes, carrying 18 states: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. </span>
<span>Breckinridge won 11 states -- 72 Electoral Votes. Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North carolina, South Carolina and Texas. </span>
<span>Bell won the Electoral Votes of 3 states -- 39; Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. </span>
<span>Douglas received the Electoral Vote of 1 state - Missouri. (12)
The correct answer is the Utah territory. This was done as a compromise on allowing new states into the union. The states in the region actually did support slavery and the vote passed even though it had been previously forbidden. This was because it was in the south where slavery was a common thing. <span />
The atomic number of an element, also called a proton number, tells you the number of protons or positive particles in an atom. ... That means an atom with a neutral charge is one where the number of electrons is equal to the atomic number. Ions are atoms with extra electrons or missing electrons.
