Election of 1860
All the Democrats met in Charleston South Carolina, in April 1860. They met here to select a candidate for a president in the upcoming election and served as the stopping result for the outbreak of the American Civil War. The election of 1860 was a four-man race led by Lincoln of the Republican Party, John Bell of the Constitutional Union Party, John Breckenridge of the Southern Democratic Party and by Douglas of the National Democratic Party. At stake during this election was the policy of slavery -- Southerners wanted the slave codes to be preserved whereas Northerners hoped to contain it. The Union Party was not cautious on this effect claiming that all issues would be resolved by the Constitution. His election of 1860 was a cause of the Civil War because the divisions in the country had reached a breaking point. Southerners were outraged over a plot by abolitionist John Brown to start a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, an event that garnered headlines in newspapers and magazines across the nation. People were outraged to the fullest on this topic. Abraham Lincoln felt as if that he couldn't completely end slavery but in the places that were slavery free he wanted to keep it that way. So he abolished slavery in 1863.
All the Democrats met in Charleston South Carolina, in April 1860. They met here to select a candidate for a president in the upcoming election and served as the stopping result for the outbreak of the American Civil War. The election of 1860 was a four-man race led by Lincoln of the Republican Party, John Bell of the Constitutional Union Party, John Breckenridge of the Southern Democratic Party and by Douglas of the National Democratic Party. At stake during this election was the policy of slavery -- Southerners wanted the slave codes to be preserved whereas Northerners hoped to contain it. The Union Party was not cautious on this effect claiming that all issues would be resolved by the Constitution. His election of 1860 was a cause of the Civil War because the divisions in the country had reached a breaking point. Southerners were outraged over a plot by abolitionist John Brown to start a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, an event that garnered headlines in newspapers and magazines across the nation. People were outraged to the fullest on this topic. Abraham Lincoln felt as if that he couldn't completely end slavery but in the places that were slavery free he wanted to keep it that way. So he abolished slavery in 1863.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln grew up in a log cabin in Rural, Kentucky.When young, Abraham was 9 years old when his mother died of tremolo (milk sickness) at age 34 and the event was devastating to him.
As he grew up to become a man he married Mary Todd Lincoln. They then went on to have 4 sons. Later on in life, he went on to become the 16th President of the United States. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery.
Abraham Lincoln grew up in a log cabin in Rural, Kentucky.When young, Abraham was 9 years old when his mother died of tremolo (milk sickness) at age 34 and the event was devastating to him.
As he grew up to become a man he married Mary Todd Lincoln. They then went on to have 4 sons. Later on in life, he went on to become the 16th President of the United States. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery.
A month after Lincoln’s election, legislators in South Carolina voted all together to secede. Within several weeks, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas followed right behind South Carolinas' legislators. The word secession had been used as early as 1776, threatened separation when the Continental Congress who went out to tax all the colonies they went off eagerly to count enslaved African Americans as the population.