"On November 6, 1860, voters went to the ballot box to cast their votes for President of the United States," notes an article at the website history.com. "Lincoln won the election in an electoral ...

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None of these arguments cancel out the obvious ways in which the 1860 election had far worse consequences — at least to this point — than the one in 2020.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Susan Schulten discussed the significance of the election of 1860. She explained the issues surrounding the election, the policies of ...

Lincoln, of course, won that 1860 election when he cobbled together 180 electoral votes even though he lost the popular vote in a four-way race in which North-South geography was critically important.

The Election of 1860. Richard Norton Smith and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn talked about the election of 1860 and politics surrounding it. Description.