Back انتخابات الرئاسة الأمريكية 1860 Arabic ھەڵبژاردنی سەرۆکایەتیی ویلایەتە یەکگرتووەکانی ئەمریکا (١٨٦٠) CKB Volby prezidenta USA 1860 Czech Præsidentvalget i USA 1860 Danish Präsidentschaftswahl in den Vereinigten Staaten 1860 German 1860 United States presidential election English Elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos de 1860 Spanish انتخابات ریاستجمهوری ایالات متحده آمریکا (۱۸۶۰) Persian Yhdysvaltain presidentinvaalit 1860 Finnish Élection présidentielle américaine de 1860 French
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
The United States presidential election of 1860 was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. The election of President Abraham Lincoln served as a trigger for the outbreak of the American Civil War. The United States had been divided during the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. In 1860, these issues broke the Democratic Party into three factions.[1] Each group felt they could best defeat the Republican Party candidate.[1]
John C. Breckinridge
John Bell
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Election of 1860 and Secession". Terra Foundation for American Art. Retrieved 27 April 2015.