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Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer,politician,and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the Union through the American Civil War to defend the nation as a constitutional union and succeeded in defeating the insurgent Confederacy,abolishing slavery,bolstering the federal government,and modernizing the U.S. economy.
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy,formed by states that had seceded from it. The cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories,leading to more slave states,or be prevented from doing so,which many believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction.
The Emancipation Proclamation,officially Proclamation 95,was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1,1863,during the American Civil War. The Proclamation had the effect of changing the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free. As soon as slaves escaped the control of their enslavers,either by fleeing to Union lines or through the advance of federal troops,they were permanently free. In addition,the Proclamation allowed for former slaves to "be received into the armed service of the United States". The Emancipation Proclamation was a significant part of the end of slavery in the United States.
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,absent from the ballot in ten slave states,won a national popular plurality,a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery,and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes. Lincoln's election thus served as the main catalyst of the states that would become the Confederacy seceding from the Union. This marked the first time that a Republican was elected president. It was also the first presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state;the others have been in 1904,1920,1940,1944,and 2016.
The 1864 United States presidential election was the 20th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday,November 8,1864. Near the end of the American Civil War,incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the Democratic nominee,former General George B. McClellan,by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college,with 55% of the popular vote. For the election,the Republican Party and some Democrats created the National Union Party,especially to attract War Democrats.
David Hunter was an American military officer. He served as a Union general during the American Civil War. He achieved notability for his unauthorized 1862 order emancipating slaves in three Southern states,for his leadership of United States troops during the Valley Campaigns of 1864,and as the president of the military commission trying the conspirators involved with the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
The Radical Republicans were a faction within the Republican Party originating from the party's founding in 1854—some six years before the Civil War—until the Compromise of 1877,which effectively ended Reconstruction. They called themselves "Radicals" because of their goal of immediate,complete,and permanent eradication of slavery in the United States. They were opposed during the war by the Moderate Republicans,and by the Democratic Party. Radicals led efforts after the war to establish civil rights for former slaves and fully implement emancipation. After unsuccessful measures in 1866 resulted in violence against former slaves in the rebel states,Radicals pushed the Fourteenth Amendment for statutory protections through Congress. They opposed allowing ex-Confederate officers to retake political power in the Southern U.S.,and emphasized equality,civil rights and voting rights for the "freedmen",i.e.,former slaves who had been freed during or after the Civil War by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment.
Clement Laird Vallandigham was an American lawyer and politician who served as the leader of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the American Civil War.
The Solid South or the Southern bloc was the electoral voting bloc of the states of the Southern United States for issues that were regarded as particularly important to the interests of Democrats in those states. The Southern bloc existed between the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877 and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. During this period,the Democratic Party overwhelmingly controlled southern state legislatures,and most local,state and federal officeholders in the South were Democrats. During the late 1800s and early 1900s,Southern Democrats disenfranchised blacks in all Southern states,along with a few non-Southern states doing the same as well. This resulted essentially in a one-party system,in which a candidate's victory in Democratic primary elections was tantamount to election to the office itself. White primaries were another means that the Democrats used to consolidate their political power,excluding blacks from voting in primaries.
In the United States the period 1848 and 1865 was dominated by the tensions that led to the American Civil War between North and South,and the bloody fighting in 1861-1865 that produced Northern victory in the war and ended slavery. At the same time industrialization and the transportation revolution changed the economics of the Northern United States and the Western United States. Heavy immigration from Western Europe shifted the center of population further to the North.
Neo-Confederates are groups and individuals who portray the Confederate States of America and its actions during the American Civil War in a positive light. The League of the South,the Sons of Confederate Veterans and other neo-Confederate organizations continue to defend the secession of the former Confederate States.
Southern Democrats are affiliates of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the Southern United States.
The National Union Party was the name used by the Republican Party and elements of other parties for the national ticket in the 1864 presidential election during the Civil War. Most state Republican parties did not change their name. The name was used to attract War Democrats,border state voters,and Unconditional Unionist,and Unionist Party members who might otherwise have not voted for Republicans. The National Union Party nominated incumbent Republican President Abraham Lincoln of Illinois and Democrat Andrew Johnson of Tennessee for Vice President. They won the Electoral College 212–21.
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860,and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in February 1861. The bombardment of the beleaguered U.S. garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12,1861,is generally recognized as the first military engagement of the war. The retaking of Charleston in February 1865,and raising the flag again at Fort Sumter,was used for the Union symbol of victory.
The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began on March 4,1861,when Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States,and ended upon his assassination and death on April 15,1865,42 days into his second term. Lincoln was the first member of the recently established Republican Party elected to the presidency. Lincoln successfully presided over the Union victory in the American Civil War,which dominated his presidency and resulted in the end of slavery.
Robert E. Lee Day is a state holiday in parts of the Southern US,commemorating the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. It is rooted in the rise of the Lost Cause myth prevalent throughout the Southern United States,as Lee was a central figure in Lost Cause mythology due to his social status,military exploits,and personality.
Events from the year 1862 in the United States. You forgot the invention of A1 steak sauce in the middle of the Civil war...
Lincoln is a 2012 American biographical historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg,starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln. It features Sally Field,David Strathairn,Joseph Gordon-Levitt,James Spader,Hal Holbrook,and Tommy Lee Jones in supporting roles. The screenplay by Tony Kushner was loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals:The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,and covers the final four months of Lincoln's life,focusing on his efforts in January 1865 to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude by having the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the United States House of Representatives.
The Northern Democratic Party was a leg of the Democratic Party during the 1860 presidential election,when the party split in two factions because of disagreements over slavery. They held two conventions before the election,in Charleston and Baltimore,where they established their platform. Democratic Candidate Stephen A. Douglas was the nominee and lost to Republican Candidate Abraham Lincoln,whose victory prompted the secession of 11 Southern states and the formation of the Confederate States of America.
This article documents the political career of Abraham Lincoln from the end of his term in the United States House of Representatives in March 1849 to the beginning of his first term as President of the United States in March 1861.
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