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22 de dic. de 2023 · In a four-way race, Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860. This guide provides access to digital materials at the Library of Congress, links to external websites, and a print bibliography.
“fire-eaters" in the late 1850s into the 1860 election cycle disrupted ordinary political processes and then fractured the Democratic Party, leading to the Republican electoral victory.
The issue of slavery in the territories, which framed the 1860 presidential election, burst into American politics as a result of the Mexican War and David Wilmot’s 1846 proviso.
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 ...
Results of the presidential election of 1860, won by Abraham Lincoln with 180 electoral votes.
Because of its extraordinary consequences and because of Abraham Lincoln's place in the American pantheon, the presidential election of 1860 is probably th...
The contest involved four major candidates: Stephen Douglas, representing the national Democratic Party; John Breckinridge, representing pro-slavery Southern Democrats who refused to endorse Douglas; John Bell, representing an ad-hoc alliance of conservative centrists calling itself the Constitutional Union Party; and Abraham Lincoln, representi...
