Who was the other main candidate in the North during the 1860 election?
John Bell
John C. Breckinridge
Abraham Lincoln
James Buchanan
Answer
Abraham Lincoln was the other main candidate in the North during the 1860 election. He was a Republican and ran on a platform that opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories. Lincoln won the election, but his victory sparked the secession of Southern states from the Union and the outbreak of the Civil War.
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