Examine the election of 1860, analyze why the election of abraham lincoln was enough to drive the south to secession.

Mainly, Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election without a single vote from the South. What made matters worse was that he was a Rebuplican. Southerners feared that Republicans would take abolition to a whole new level, so they used Lincoln's election as a reason for secession.

the treaty of brest-litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 march 1918 between the new bolshevik government of russia and the central powers (german empire, austria-hungary, bulgaria, and the ottoman empire), that ended russia's participation in world war i.