In a 125-word paragraph, explain how the Kansas issue help Lincoln win the Presidency in 1860.

Expansion split the venerable Democratic Party into Northern and Southern factions, allowing the Republican Abraham Lincoln to win the election without a single Southern electoral vote. It was Kansas that made Abraham Lincoln president of the United States in 1860. Six years early, Lincoln had been an obscure former congressman conscientiously practicing law when Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas forced passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Lincoln and Douglas had known each other for almost two decades, but the legislation to organize the vast northern section of the Louisiana Purchase turned them into national rivals for the hearts and minds of Americans.

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