Read this passage from a lesson about Abraham Lincoln. Which is NOT something you could logically infer based on this paragraph?

Lincoln remained in Springfield for most of the election season while his supporters campaigned. One Republican partisan group, the “Wide Awakes,” conducted mass marches by torchlight and rallied for the Republican Party. Lincoln was opposed by a number of parties, none of which posed much of a challenge individually. He won a majority of votes in the Electoral College, but his share of the popular vote was only 40% of the total. Lincoln did not carry a single southern state. Weeks after the election, South Carolina declared that it was seceding from the United States. Six other southern states followed suit and organized a separate government called the Confederate States of America.


South Carolina seceded because Lincoln was elected.


Lincoln won because too many opponents ran against him.


Lincoln did not have the majority of American voters’ support.


Nobody in the South voted for Lincoln.