Lincoln won for the Republicans on a ticket of no new slave-states. This meant that the South would always be outvoted in Congress, which would tend to pass laws that favoured the North.
South Carolina immediately secdeded from the USA, and six other states had done the saqme by the time of Lincoln's inaugration in March.
Lincoln won his re-election and emancipated the slaves. His opposition wanted to sue for peace at all costs. If Lincoln didn't win the election the US might be 2 independant countries now, and slavery might have remained legal for much longer.
He was elected on a ticket of no new slave-states. So the South was doomed to be outvoted in Congress. So it broke away.
The most important outcome was the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln.
the civil war
There was only one General Election in the Civil War - November 1864 - and Lincoln had to call his party by a different name in that election.
No. The November 1864 General Election was won by Lincoln.
He was able to win re-election in November 1864. This was the signal that the North was voting to fight on, and it spelt the end of any hopes of Confederate victory and Southern independence.
Lincoln won the 1864 presidential election.
The person who won the 1864 presidential election was Abraham Lincoln.
November 8, 1864 Abraham Lincoln won the election! :)
Lincoln's Democratic opponent in the election of 1864 was General George McClellan.
What candidate and party did Fillmore support in the 1864 election
The Battle of Walkerton was a Confederate victory in Virginia. The battle was fought on March 2, 1864.
The democratic nominee for president in the 1864 election was George B. McClellan. McClellan was a former Union general during the Civil War and ran against the incumbent president, Abraham Lincoln.