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Hace 2 días · 1801 Contingent Election Results. Green denotes states voting for Jefferson and blue denotes states voting for Burr. States in grey cast blank ballots. The 1800 United States presidential election was the fourth quadrennial presidential election. It was held from October 31 to December 3, 1800.
Hace 4 días · Decades of political controversy over slavery were brought to a head by the victory in the 1860 U.S. presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion into the western territories.
Hace 3 días · American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. It arose out of disputes over slavery and states’ rights. When antislavery candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president (1860), the Southern states seceded.
Hace 1 día · This presented a problem during the presidential election of 1800 when Aaron Burr received the same number of electoral votes as Thomas Jefferson and challenged Jefferson's election to the office. In the end, Jefferson was chosen as the president because of Alexander Hamilton 's influence in the House.
Hace 5 días · In 18 elections between 1824 and 2000, presidents were elected without popular majorities—including Abraham Lincoln, who won election in 1860 with under 40 percent of the national vote.
Hace 6 días · The presidential election of 1860 was highly remarkable in many ways. It rallied eighty percent of the qualified voters to turn out. The American public got really excited about the election. One of the strangest things about the election was that it was almost entirely two separate elections—one in the North, one in the South.
Hace 3 días · The four candidates for the 1860 Presidential election. Clockwise from top right: Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, John Breckenridge, and John Bell – The Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Campaign of 1860: the Road to the Lincoln Presidency.
