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Lincoln's 1860 Nominating and Secession Crisis Recap
The piece outlines the 1860 Republican convention in Chicago with Lincoln rising as the candidate, and the Democratic split leading to Breckenridge and Douglas nominations. It details the electoral results, secession moves by South Carolina and others, Lincoln's inauguration, cabinet, and the start of the Civil War with Fort Sumter.
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Lincoln
William H. Seward
New York
Democratic Party
Edwin D. Morgan
David Wilmot
Pennsylvania
George Ashman
Massachusetts
Preston King
Carl Schurz
Wisconsin
Kansas
Buchanan
New Territory
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
Simon Cameron
Salmon P. Chase
Ohio
Edward Bates
Missouri
William L. Dayton
New Jersey
John McLean
Jacob Collamer
Vermont
Seward
Cameron
Chase
Bates
Dayton
McLean
Collamer
Hamilton Hamlin
Maine
Horace Greely
New York Tribune
Morgan
Edward McPherson
Charleston
South Carolina
Stephen A. Douglas
Douglas
Baltimore
Bayard
Delaware
Richmond
Breckenridge
Kentucky
John C. Breckenridge
Indiana
Bell
Constitutional Union
Free State
Republican Party
South
Curtis
Free States
Minnesota
Oregon
Union
Columbia
Floyd Buchanan
Georgia
Florida
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Texas
Montgomery
Ala
Confederate States of America
Springfield
Washington
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Slaveocracy
Congress
Senate
United States
the Treasury
Gideon Welles
Connecticut
Interior
Caleb B. Smith
Montgomery Blair
Maryland
Jefferson Davis
Union States Senate
Fort Sumter
Anderson