Which of the following statements are true about the 1860 presidential election? lincoln won with only 40 percent of the popular vote. seward was beaten out by lincoln in the election. a splintered republican party gave lincoln the win. lincoln won without being on many southern ballots.

Why were presidents andrew jackson and martin van buren unwilling to annex texas? a. they did not want texas to be admitted to the union as a slave state. b. they feared that the annexation of texas as a slave state would lead to political problems within the union. c. they thought that texas was too large to be admitted to the union as one state. d. they did not believe in the idea of manifest destiny.