Abraham Lincoln Elected President 1860

   

Lincoln

•From Illinois, he was opposed to the expansion of slavery, not the abolition, of slavery. He also claimed that the Union should be maintained at all costs.

--In 1860 he defeated 3 other candidates (only 39 percent of vote). Did not even campaign in the South

The senatorial campaign featured a remarkable series of public encounters on the slavery issue, known as the Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery, while Douglas maintained that each territory should have the right to decide whether it would become free or slave.