The 1860 presidential election showed the major difference of opinion between the north and the south over the issue of slavery. Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election. He did not receive electoral votes from any southern state. Abraham Lincoln was not on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
The 1860 presidential election showed the major difference of opinion between the north and the south over the issue of slavery. Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election. He did not receive electoral votes from any southern state. Abraham Lincoln was not on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
The election of 1856 showed how divided the nation was over the issue of slavery. It also showed that the Republican party was very powerful in the North.
The Democratic Party endorsed popular sovereignty giving the power to determine the legality of slavery to the inhabitants of the territory seeking statehood, rather than to Congress.
The Democratic Party endorsed popular sovereignty giving the power to determine the legality of slavery to the inhabitants of the territory seeking statehood, rather than to Congress.
The Republican Party opposed the extension of slavery into the territories.
John C. Fremont.
The Republicans did not win in 1856- the Democrat Buchanan won the election in 1856. The Republican candidate, Lincoln won in 1860 and so became the first Republican president.
Democratic Party candidate James Buchanan won the 1856 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate John Freemont and American Party candidate Millard Fillmore.
It was the first election in which the Republicans ran a national presidential candidate. They lost, but did pretty well and won four years later.
American party or "no nothing" party
November 4, 1856 was the date of the Presidential election for that year.
Slavery was the major issue in the 1856 election. Democratic Party candidate James Buchanan endorsed popular sovereignty giving the power to determine the legality of slavery to the inhabitants of the territory seeking statehood, rather than to Congress. The Republican Party opposed the extension of slavery into the territories. Buchanan warned that if the Republicans won the election, their anti-slavery position would lead to civil war.
The Republicans used this in their first attempt to elect a president. Fremont was their candidate.
James Buchanan
James Buchanan
Democratic Party candidate James Buchanan won the 1856 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate John Freemont.
It was the first presidential election with a nominee from the Republican Party.