After Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, this event happened next Question 18 options: South Carolina seceded from the Union fearing Lincoln's views on slavery Brown's Harper's Ferry raid. Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Great Compromise

The correct answer is "South Carolina seceded fearing Lincoln's views on slavery".

Immediately after the presidential election in 1860, several southern cotton states that used slavery seceded to form the Confederacy. Shortly after, more states joined and this resulted in the outbreak of the American Civil War.