nov 6, 1860 - Election of 1860

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A landmark presidential election placing Republican Abraham Lincoln as the 16th president over Northern Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, and Constitutional Unionist John Bell. Notably, Lincoln appeared to have won exactly zero votes in the South due to most Southern states refusing to even place Lincoln's name on the ballot. This election was the final straw for the South, who saw Lincoln as a radical that would abolish slavery. Less than two months after the election, the South began to secede from the Union.

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