Question

Tort

Presidential Election of 1860
NH
ELECTORAL
WASHINGTON
VT
VOTES
OREGON
WISC
MASS 13 Republican
180
TERRITORY NEBRASKA
TERRITORY
(Lincoln) 59%
CONNG
IOWA
NU
Southern
UTAH
SODE 3
72
TERRITORY
Democratic
ICALE
KANSAS MO
IMDB
TERRITORY
(Breckinridge) 249
Uno
TENIN 12
NEW MEXICO
Constitutional 39
Ter
TERRITORY
4
Union
13%
MISSALA
CA
(Bell)
10
TEXAS
LA
Northern
12
Democratic
TERRITORY
(Douglas)
ILL IN OHIO
MY
VA
15
NC
10
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Using the map above, which of the following is true about the electoral votes that Abraham Lincoln received in the presidential
election of 1860?
A. He received an equal amount of electoral votes from both free states and slave states.
B. He received all of his electoral votes from slave states.
C. He received more electoral votes from slave states than from free states.
D. He received all of his electoral votes from free states.

Answer 1

A. He received an equal amount of electoral votes from both free states and slave states.

But received the majority from Northern FREE States

Step-by-step explanation:

won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes. Lincoln's election thus served as the main catalyst of the American Civil War.