Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846 ... Two years later, in 1860, Lincoln was nominated as the Republican presidential candidate. Thanks to a deeply divided opposition ...

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 ...

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that ... Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the ...

Author Erik Larson, one of the most popular authors of non-fiction history, joins us to discuss his new book The Demon of ...

1860. After nearly a week devoted to private business in this city, I yesterday visited Springfield and the President elect. A couple of personal friends, who were acquainted with Mr. LINCOLN ...

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

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the ... that remained loyal to the Union. Yet Lincoln genuinely abhorred slavery. Six years before his election as president, he announced bluntly, “I ...

But that wasn’t the case in 1860. Five days earlier ... November’s presidential election, the state’s leadership had said it would withdraw if Abraham Lincoln won, and they meant it.

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains ... elegant phrases of modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself.