-Key figures were Republican Abraham Lincoln, Democrat Stephen Douglas, Southern Democrat John Breckenridge, and Constitutional union party candidate John Bell.
-This is the election that caused the South to secede. They seceded because there was a republican president and they feared for the institution of slavery. This secession is what caused the civil war to begin.
-This was just prior to the civil war. This is a time where the South was threatening to secede if Lincoln won election, and when he did the South seceded even while Buchanan was still in office.
-This caused Southern secession which was the giant spark of civil war. Lincoln's election directly led to a war of slavery. After this point civil war was declared.
-This is the election that caused the South to secede. They seceded because there was a republican president and they feared for the institution of slavery. This secession is what caused the civil war to begin.
-This was just prior to the civil war. This is a time where the South was threatening to secede if Lincoln won election, and when he did the South seceded even while Buchanan was still in office.
-This caused Southern secession which was the giant spark of civil war. Lincoln's election directly led to a war of slavery. After this point civil war was declared.