Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels

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I used to hate it when my students would hit me with one of those "what if" questions, but I'm going to present one anyhow: What do you think would have happened (in the country as a whole) if John Breckinridge (the runner-up) or John Bell (second runner-up) had won the 1860 election?