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The appointment of Lincoln filled in as the essential impetus of the American Civil War. By 1860, the Republican Party hosted supplanted the ancient Whig Gathering as the significant restriction to the Democrats.
the reason why the 1860 election lead to was was because four strong candidates competed for the presidincy and the political party's of the day were in flux...and the constitutional party was also new; in 1860 the first and only time the party ran a candidate for president but the results of the 1860's pushed the nation into war.
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