Which was a direct result of President Lincoln winning the Election of 1860? The Supreme Court declared that Stephen Douglas should be president.
Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter and the Civil War begins.
All slaves were immediately set free in the Southern states.
Southern states began to secede from the Union.

The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began on March 4, 1861, when he was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States, and ended upon his assassination and death on April 15, 1865, 42 days into his second term. Lincoln was the first member of the recently established Republican Party elected to the presidency. He was succeeded by Vice President Andrew Johnson. Lincoln presided over the Union victory in the American Civil War, which dominated his presidency.