But many Americans saw the 1860 election as an opportunity to turn the tide against Slave Power. Because the North vastly outpopulated the South, Northerners could create change — but only if ...

And in the first place there is great reason to doubt whether the sufferings of the North would be so intolerable ... the event of Mr. LINCOLN's election, viz.: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama ...

A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury does not anticipate any great advantage to the South, even from the election of BRECKINRIDGE ... predominance of the North, which of necessity ...

Before Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020, only one presidential election had resulted in massive violence against the federal government. That of course was the election of 1860 ...

South Carolina, and Texas. The Confederacy was joined later by Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee. In the wake of that crucial election of 1860, America's worst crisis had begun.

In fact, the secession crisis of 1860-61 was the culmination of ... After decades of compromise between the North and South, the election of Lincoln spurred an almost paranoid anxiety about ...

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But many Americans saw the 1860 election as an opportunity to turn the tide against Slave Power. Because the North vastly outpopulated the South, Northerners could create change — but only if they ...