Question

What evidence is there that Lincoln had some competition in the North?​

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

There is evidence that Lincoln faced competition in the North during the presidential election of 1864. The main opposition to Lincoln came from the Democratic Party, which nominated General George B. McClellan as their candidate. McClellan had previously served as a general in the Union Army and was popular with many Northern voters who were dissatisfied with Lincoln's handling of the war.

McClellan campaigned on a platform of negotiating a peace settlement with the Confederacy, which appealed to many Northern voters who were weary of the war and its cost in lives and resources. In addition, some Radical Republicans were critical of Lincoln's moderate stance on slavery and his willingness to compromise with Southern states in order to end the war.

Despite this competition, Lincoln ultimately won re-election in 1864, largely due to his successful leadership of the Union Army and his ability to maintain Northern support for the war effort. He won with 55% of the popular vote and 212 out of 233 electoral votes, while McClellan only received 45% of the popular vote and 21 electoral votes.

Answer 2

Lincoln-Douglas debates, series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories.

Lincoln-Douglas debates, series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories.

The slavery extension question had seemingly been settled by the Missouri Compromise nearly 40 years earlier. The Mexican War, however, had added new territories, and the issue flared up again in the 1840s. The Compromise of 1850 provided a temporary respite from sectional strife, but the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854—a measure Douglas sponsored—brought the slavery extension issue to the fore once again. Douglas’s bill in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise by lifting the ban against slavery in territories north of the 36°30′ latitude. In place of the ban, Douglas offered popular sovereignty, the doctrine that the actual settlers in the territories and not Congress should decide the fate of slavery in their midst.

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