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True. The overwhelming support for Lincoln in the north gave him a majority of the total popular vote despite winning almost no votes in the south.
In November 1860, the United States found itself at a turning point. Tension over the institution of slavery had been slowly building since the 1820s. Northern free states opposed the expansion of slavery in the west, while Southern slave states feared the loss of their states' rights, slave property, and slavery's economic benefit. From 1820 to 1850, the U.S. government compromised over the institution of slavery with the hope of maintaining peace between the Northern and Southern states.
In the 1858 Illinois Senate race, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas both sought to win the election. During the Lincoln - Douglas Debates, both candidates discussed the issue of slavery, which was becoming increasingly divisive. Lincoln stated he believed the country could not remain half-free and half-slave. While Lincoln lost the Senate race in 1858, the Republican party took notice of Lincoln and endorsed him as their party's candidate for the 1860 presidential election.
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