In the election of 1860, Select one: a. Abraham Lincoln was elected with less than half of the popular vote. b. the Republican political platform called for an end to slavery. c. Abraham Lincoln’s relative obscurity proved to be a drawback. d. Stephen Douglas narrowly lost in the electoral vote. e. disenchanted northern Democrats nominated John Bell for president.

The right choice is:

a. Abraham Lincoln was elected with less than half of the popular vote.

Explanation:

Lincoln was the first Republican to win the presidency. He won the Electoral College clearly, but he only got 40% of the popular vote. Even so, he got more popular votes than any other candidate. Lincoln was an abolitionist, his election was a factor of the outbreak of the Civil War.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

explanation:

worldwide, 780 million people do not have access to an improved water source. an estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation (more than 35% of the world's population)