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Republican Party Platform of 1860. May 17, 1860. Resolved, That we, the delegated representatives of the Republican electors of the United States in Convention assembled, in discharge of the duty we owe to our constituents and our country, unite in the following declarations: 1.
- Lincoln’s Political History
- 1860 Republican National Convention
- Democrats Split Over Slavery
- Constitutional Union Party
- 1860 Presidential Campaign
- 1860 Election Results: The South Reacts
- Sources
Abraham Lincoln’s political ambitions began in 1832 when he was just 23 years old and ran for the Illinois House of Representatives. While he lost that election, two years later, he was elected to the state legislature as a member of the Whig party, where he publicly announced his disdain for slavery. In 1847, Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House ...
The Republican Party held its second national convention on May 16, 1860, in Chicago, Illinois. It adopted a moderate stance on slavery and was against its expansion, although some delegates wanted the institution abolished altogether. The two frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination were Lincoln and New York Senator William Seward. ...
The Democratic Party was in shambles in 1860. They should have been the party of unity, but instead were divided on the issue of slavery. Southern Democrats thought slavery should be expanded but Northern Democrats opposed the idea. States’ rights were also hotly debated. Southern Democrats felt states had the right to govern themselves while North...
The Constitutional Union Party was mainly made up of disgruntled Democrats, Unionists and former Whigs. On May 9, 1860, they held their first convention and nominated Tennessee slaveholder John Bellas their presidential nominee and former Harvard University President Edward Everett as his running mate. The Constitutional Union party claimed to be t...
None of the 1860 presidential candidates did anywhere near the level of campaigning seen in modern-day elections. In fact, except for Douglas, they mostly kept to themselves and let well-known party members and citizens campaign for them at rallies and parades. Much of the campaigning, however, was devoted to getting voters to the ballot box on Ele...
On November 6, 1860, voters went to the ballot box to cast their vote for President of the United States. Lincoln won the election in an electoral college landslide with 180 electoral votes, although he secured less than 40 percent of the popular vote. The North had many more people than the South and therefore control of the Electoral College. Lin...
1860 Presidential General Election Results. David Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Abraham Lincoln. Whitehouse.gov. Constitutional Union Party. “No North, No South, No East, No West, Nothing but the Union.” National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Constitutional Union Party. Texas State Historical Association. Pre-Preside...
13 de mai. de 2024 · United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on November 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.
- Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was the candidate of the generally antislavery Republican Party. The Democratic Party split in two. Sen. Stephen A. Dou...
- Nothing less than the fate of the Union was at stake in the U.S. presidential election of 1860. The Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision of 1857, wh...
- RepublicanAbraham Lincoln captured less than 40 percent of the vote but won a majority in the electoral college (180 electoral votes) by dominating...
- Abraham Lincoln’s chief competitors for the nomination as the presidential candidate of the Republican Party in 1860 were front-runner William H. S...
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 ...
17 de abr. de 2024 · In 1860, the Republican Party met in Chicago. There was widespread speculation that William H. Seward would become the party’s nominee, being the best-known figure in the field. Other contenders included John McLean of Ohio, Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, and Abraham Lincoln of Illinois.
4 de abr. de 2018 · In the 1860 election, a split between Southern and Northern Democrats over slavery propelled the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to victory, though he won only around 40 percent of the...
The 1860 Republican Party convention in Chicago created a platform that clearly opposed the expansion of slavery in the West and the reopening of the slave trade. However, nothing in the document claimed that the government had the power to eliminate slavery where it already existed.
