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Hace 1 día · The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin [2] won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and ...
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Hace 1 día · History of the United States (1865–1917) The history of the United States from 1865 to 1917 was marked by the Reconstruction era, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era, and includes the rise of industrialization and the resulting surge of immigration in the United States .
Hace 1 día · By 1860, sectional disagreements between North and South concerned primarily the status of slavery in the United States. The specific question at issue was whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states , or be prevented from doing so, which was widely believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction.
Hace 3 días · The deep divisions within the party resulted in protracted battles between delegates at the party’s convention in 1856, which required 49 ballots to select a nominee, and at its convention in 1860, which required 57. From 1872 to 1908 only one Democratic National Convention failed to nominate a presidential candidate on the first or second ...
Hace 5 días · Back in December 1860 when he was president-elect, he wrote a letter to an old friend of his, [a] former United States Senator from Georgia named Alexander Stephens, who was about to become the Vice President of the Confederacy and was about to give a speech—a famous speech in Savannah, Georgia, proclaiming that slavery was the cornerstone of the new Confederate government.
Hace 4 días · The election of 1860 was an event unto itself, a grand democratic exercise unlike anything witnessed on that scale in the world. That Americans had essentially elected a President, the dismemberment of the Union, and a civil war means historians must come to grips with what democracy even meant, and what Americans felt was worth fighting to protect in 1860 and the years to follow.
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