What best describes the political divide between north and south during the election of 1860

The 1860 election was between Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breckinridge, the main issue that split the two as well as the north and south was slavery.

There were several differences between the North and the South, issues related to slavery increasingly divided the nation and led to the Civil War. Because of these differences, people of the North and South found it hard to agree on social and political issues. A major conflict was states' rights (South) versus a strong central government (North). Southerners believed that they had the power to declare any national law illegal. Northerners believed that the national government's power was supreme over that of the states. The North believed that the nation was a union and could not be divided. Southerners felt that the abolition of slavery would destroy their region's economy. Northerners believed that slavery should be abolished for moral reasons.

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