Articles related to "Election Of 1860"

Many factors enabled a fledgling Republican Party to capture the White House in 1860 but a chief reason may have been the division of the Democrats into three parties.

Abraham Lincoln's victory in the 1860 presidential election ensured that the divisions between North and South could not be resolved.

Tall, stately and formal, James Buchanan was the only President who never married.

Abraham Lincoln owes much of his popularity and success, as well as his election to the presidency, to the efforts of Joseph Medill and the Chicago Tribune.

Beginning in 1847, Abraham Lincoln entered national politics, and quickly made a name for himself for his personal convictions and blunt honesty.

President-elect Abraham Lincoln receives a letter from a child criticizing his face, encouraging him to grow a beard.

The civil war (1861 - 1865) was fought largely over issues of slavery.

Few presidential elections have been quite as close, as dramatic or as controversial as the 1960 election between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy turned out to be.

In the middle of the 19th century, a new party began to rise up through the ranks of American Politics. The Know-Nothings were anti Catholic and anti Immigration.

Richard Milhous Nixon showed signs of great political potential very early on in life, and certainly would live up to that potential in later life.

Emancipation began as a gradual process that culminated in Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, starting a path toward full social and political equality.