Abraham Lincoln was most popular in the Northern states. The states he won were anti-slavery. The candidate who won the electoral votes in the south was Jefferson Davis.
The 13 colonies opposed these acts because the colonies were being taxed without representation meaning that the colonies usually made their own taxed untill the Britsh stated tax acts without giving the colonies any say on if they wanted them so the colonies protest these acts fearing that the colonies were going to get pushed around by the Britsh
Florida borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Sea