The Election of Abraham Lincoln
- Beats Breckenridge, Bell, and Douglas
- Lincoln wins every single free state except new jersey
- Won the presidency without a single electoral vote from the south and less than 1% of the popular vote
- South Carolina immediately secedes from the union, and so do other states
- This is important because the North can outvote the entire South
- Lincoln wasn’t on the ballot in most Southern states
- Free states will always win as the Republican party doesn’t care about their interests and can win without them