passage to ansv the question the Northern states are now

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passage to ansv the question the Northern states are now united in the election of a man Abraham Lincoln to the high office of President of the United States whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery the guarantees of the Constitution will then no longer exist equal rights of the states will be lost The slaveholding states will no longer have the power of self government or self protection and the Federal Government will have become their enemy Christopher Memminger South Carolina 1860 http www ushistory org us 32e asp Idan Tem KARALY Terrasses How was the Election of 1860 a turning point in United States history H Caroline 101 Mase The Progress of Secession Union states Border slave states that did not secede States that seceded after the fall of Fort Sunter States that seceded before th fall of Fort Sumter Due to Abraham Lincoln s election in 1860 the federal government was able to pass legislation abolitioning slavery in the western territories which led to the southern secession Due to Abraham Lincoln s election in 1860 the Southern states feared the federal government would violate the southern states right to allow slavery which led to secession The Election of 1860 resulted in the agreement that Southern states will secede from the Union to uphold the economic and political rights of the slave states The Election of 1860 resulted in the creation of a third party that did not support the expansion of slavery which led to the secoccion of t