Question

Why was the election of 1856 important

Answer 1

The presidential election of 1856 was also the last time to date that a Democrat was elected to succeed a fellow Democrat as president, and the last one in which a former president ran for election to the presidency on a third party ticket until 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt ran on the Progressive Party ticket

Answer 2

Frémont decried the expansion of slavery, while Buchanan warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war. ... Buchanan won a plurality of the popular vote and a majority of the electoral vote, taking all but one slave state and five free states.

Instance of recurring event: United States presidential Election

Date: Tuesday, November 4, 1856