-
Lincoln was elected in 1860 despite not winning the popular vote. Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but defeated the three other candidates:
-
South Carolina was the first to leave the Union and form the Confederate States of America. Four months later, six other states seceded: Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana. Later Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them.
-
War between states
-
War between the states.
