Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

THE POLITICAL turmoil that erupted over Franklin Pierce’s anti-slavery comments spoken at a Democratic Party gathering in New Boston in January, 1852, faded as soon as he won the presidential ...

In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bell (Constitutional Union), and Stephen A. Douglas (Northern Democrat). At this time, there were ...

In 1860, on the cusp of the Civil War, the Republican National Convention in Chicago not only took a chance on a one-term congressman named Abraham Lincoln, but introduced the nation to one of the ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about ... Stephen Douglas, Lincoln’s opponent in the presidential election of 1860, accused abolitionists of proposing to “destroy the right and ...

Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 as an opponent of slavery's expansion prompted South Carolina and six other states to secede and form the Confederacy while Buchanan was still in office ...

In 1860 the Democrats ran two separate tickets -- one southern and one northern. The irony for the southern pro-slavery Democrats was that the split in the party helped Abraham Lincoln win the ...

Mr. Douglas confides the secret of his passion to the unloquacious clams of Rhode Island, and the chief complaint made against Mr. Lincoln by his opponents is that he is TOO Constitutional.

The League of Women voters in 1952 hosted the first televised presidential debate in American history for a nationwide ...

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...

The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, accepted his nomination in a hastily built hall known as the Wigwam in 1860.