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Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught Illinois lawyer, legislator and opponent of slavery, was elected president in November 1860âbut by the time of his inauguration in March 1861, seven Southern states had seceded, and the Civil War began a few weeks later.
Abstract. One important catalyst for the onset of the Civil War was the Presidential Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Lincoln, competing against three other candidates, won the election with the smallest percentage of the popular vote in American history.evertheless, there are certain events that played a pivotal role in the drive to secession, and ultimately the outbreak of war, whose inevitability can be examined. Perhaps, the most important of these events was the Presidential Election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860.