The electoral victory of John Bell and the constitutional Union
... The presidential election of 1860 is one of the most studied in United States history. Four candidates contested the presidential race that saw the Democratic Party split in two and the Republican Party gain the presidency without a single southern electoral vote. The election precipitated the Civil ...
... The presidential election of 1860 is one of the most studied in United States history. Four candidates contested the presidential race that saw the Democratic Party split in two and the Republican Party gain the presidency without a single southern electoral vote. The election precipitated the Civil ...
Report No. 80-169 GOV BRIEF HISTORIES OF
... of Maryland for the presidency and Amos Ellmaker of Pennsylvania for the vice presidency. The political effect of the entrance, for the first time, of a third party into a United States presidential election was to draw support from Henry Clay and to help President Andrew Jackson (who was a Mason) w ...
... of Maryland for the presidency and Amos Ellmaker of Pennsylvania for the vice presidency. The political effect of the entrance, for the first time, of a third party into a United States presidential election was to draw support from Henry Clay and to help President Andrew Jackson (who was a Mason) w ...
The Presidents of the United States
... Occupation: Planter, Soldier Political Party: Federalist $25,000/year (refused by ...
... Occupation: Planter, Soldier Political Party: Federalist $25,000/year (refused by ...
The Wilmot proviso - IDEALS @ Illinois
... regarding annexation and the Southern element headed by Polk lost no time, with the aid of the Northwest Democrats, in carrying out that ...
... regarding annexation and the Southern element headed by Polk lost no time, with the aid of the Northwest Democrats, in carrying out that ...
Rutgers Model Congress Committee: Historical Presidential Cabinet
... with a few modifications, called The English Bill (Nevins 152). It is overwhelmingly defeated in Congress, despite that James Buchanan had signed it with approval. The 4th Constitutional Convention is eventually held in Wyandotte, Kansas. Here, the Wyandotte Constitution is drafted, and eventually ...
... with a few modifications, called The English Bill (Nevins 152). It is overwhelmingly defeated in Congress, despite that James Buchanan had signed it with approval. The 4th Constitutional Convention is eventually held in Wyandotte, Kansas. Here, the Wyandotte Constitution is drafted, and eventually ...
empresario Remember the Alamo! Tejanos "54° 40` or Fight!"
... Identify the candidates, the issues, and the results of the presidential election of 1852. List the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and explain its impact on sectionalism. What effect did it have on the Whigs? on the Democrats? How did the North react to the Kansas-Nebraska Act? the South? Wha ...
... Identify the candidates, the issues, and the results of the presidential election of 1852. List the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and explain its impact on sectionalism. What effect did it have on the Whigs? on the Democrats? How did the North react to the Kansas-Nebraska Act? the South? Wha ...
American Political Parties in History
... The Free-Soil party was organized in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into the territories newly acquired by the United States from Mexico. Among its leaders was Salmon P. Chase. The Free-Soil forces, chose former president Martin Van Buren as their presidential candidate in 1848. Although th ...
... The Free-Soil party was organized in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into the territories newly acquired by the United States from Mexico. Among its leaders was Salmon P. Chase. The Free-Soil forces, chose former president Martin Van Buren as their presidential candidate in 1848. Although th ...
The Know-Nothings
... unsuccessful in passing significant legislation. They were unable to pass bills in Congress prohibiting the admission of certain immigrants or requiring registration and literacy tests for voters in certain states. In 1856, the Know-Nothings held their first and only national convention in Philadelp ...
... unsuccessful in passing significant legislation. They were unable to pass bills in Congress prohibiting the admission of certain immigrants or requiring registration and literacy tests for voters in certain states. In 1856, the Know-Nothings held their first and only national convention in Philadelp ...
Chapter 15 The Coming Crisis The 1850s
... in both the North and the South were coming to believe that there was no way to avoid open conflict. a. The Election of 1860 The North-South split of the Democratic Party under Buchanan became official at the Democratic nominating conventions in 1860. After ten days, 59 ballots, and two southern wal ...
... in both the North and the South were coming to believe that there was no way to avoid open conflict. a. The Election of 1860 The North-South split of the Democratic Party under Buchanan became official at the Democratic nominating conventions in 1860. After ten days, 59 ballots, and two southern wal ...
AP U.S. History
... assassinated William McKinley in 1901, he quickly showed his progressive credentials (dissolving the Northern Securities Company and siding with coal miners in their strike. Roosevelt passes baton to William Howard Taft in 1908. Taft upsets progressives over his tariff policies and the Ballinger-P ...
... assassinated William McKinley in 1901, he quickly showed his progressive credentials (dissolving the Northern Securities Company and siding with coal miners in their strike. Roosevelt passes baton to William Howard Taft in 1908. Taft upsets progressives over his tariff policies and the Ballinger-P ...
The Election of 1860 - Essential Civil War Curriculum
... seriously. The general sentiment was that there were two scenarios in which the Constitutional Union ticket could be influential in the election—fusion with another party or taking enough electoral votes to deny any other candidate a majority of electoral votes. In the second scenario the House woul ...
... seriously. The general sentiment was that there were two scenarios in which the Constitutional Union ticket could be influential in the election—fusion with another party or taking enough electoral votes to deny any other candidate a majority of electoral votes. In the second scenario the House woul ...
Political Realignment - Sonoma State University
... beginning in the late 1840s. (Members of the societies were supposed to say, “I know nothing,” when asked about their clubs. Hence the party nickname.) The party’s nativist positions included restricting immigration, extending the naturalization period from 5 to 21 years, and prohibiting the use of ...
... beginning in the late 1840s. (Members of the societies were supposed to say, “I know nothing,” when asked about their clubs. Hence the party nickname.) The party’s nativist positions included restricting immigration, extending the naturalization period from 5 to 21 years, and prohibiting the use of ...
Lecture 15, The Coming Crisis
... MAP 15.5 The Election of 1860 The election of 1860 was a sectional election. Lincoln won no votes in the South, Breckinridge none in the North. The contest in the North was between Lincoln and Douglas, and although Lincoln swept the electoral vote, Douglas’s popular vote was uncomfortably close. Th ...
... MAP 15.5 The Election of 1860 The election of 1860 was a sectional election. Lincoln won no votes in the South, Breckinridge none in the North. The contest in the North was between Lincoln and Douglas, and although Lincoln swept the electoral vote, Douglas’s popular vote was uncomfortably close. Th ...
AP US History - AnnieFAPNotebook
... forming the new Republican Party. The most significant figure of the Republican Party(Origin of modern Republican Party) would be Abraham Lincoln. The debates with Stephen Douglas during the Illinois senate elections had brought him national wide reputation. New debates, now between the republicans ...
... forming the new Republican Party. The most significant figure of the Republican Party(Origin of modern Republican Party) would be Abraham Lincoln. The debates with Stephen Douglas during the Illinois senate elections had brought him national wide reputation. New debates, now between the republicans ...
Matthew Tseu Period 4 12/10/11 Group 4 Prompt 4 Democratic Party
... in the United States—contests that produced sharp and enduring changes in party loyalties across the country (although some analysts consider the election of 1824 to be the first critical election). After 1860 the Democratic and Republican parties became the major parties in a largely two-party syst ...
... in the United States—contests that produced sharp and enduring changes in party loyalties across the country (although some analysts consider the election of 1824 to be the first critical election). After 1860 the Democratic and Republican parties became the major parties in a largely two-party syst ...
United States presidential election, 1856
The United States presidential election of 1856 was the 18th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1856. Incumbent president Franklin Pierce was defeated in his effort to be re-nominated by the Democratic Party. James Buchanan, an experienced politician who had held a variety of political offices, was serving as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom and won the nomination instead.Slavery was the omnipresent issue, and the Whig Party, which had since the 1830s been one of the two major parties in the U.S., had disintegrated. New parties such as the Republican Party (strongly against slavery's expansion) and American, or ""Know-Nothing,"" Party (which ignored slavery and instead emphasized anti-immigration and anti-Catholic policies), competed to replace it as the principal opposition to the Democratic Party. The Republican Party nominated John C. Frémont of California as its first presidential candidate. The Know-Nothing Party nominated former President Millard Fillmore, of New York.Frémont condemned the Kansas–Nebraska Act, and decried the expansion of slavery. Buchanan warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war. The Democrats endorsed popular sovereignty as the method to determine slavery’s legality for newly admitted states. Buchanan won a plurality of the popular vote, but a majority of the electoral, and defeated Fillmore and Frémont, with the latter receiving fewer than 1200 popular votes in the slave states, with all of these coming from upper ones. The results in the Electoral College indicated that the Republican Party could possibly win the next presidential election by capturing only two more states.