What were the prominent issue during the 1860 election?

Slavery was the

major issue in the 1860 election. The Republican Party platform

promised not to interfere with slavery in the states, but opposed

the further extension of slavery into the territories. Republican

Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election

defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. Abraham

Lincoln received 180 electoral votes from 18 of the 33 states.

Abraham Lincoln did not receive electoral votes from any southern

state. Lincoln was not on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,

Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina,

Tennessee and Texas. South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama,

Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas declared its secession from the

United States following the November 1860 election of Republican

candidate Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency. The Civil War

began with the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter on April 12,

1861, a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

After the Civil War began in April, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee,

and North Carolina also declared their secession and joined the

Confederacy.