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Gateway Cities. From 1800 to 1860 men and women moved into western cities to find new opportunities and new profits. Exchanging raw materials such as crops, minerals, and animal skins for manufactured goods, or providing services to outlying communities, became the primary economic roles of these urban areas.
- 1800-1860: Education: Chronology
1800-1860: Education: Chronology. IMPORTANT EVENTS OF...
- 1800-1860: Education: Overview
1800-1860: Education: Overview. Post-Revolutionary Plans. As...
- 1800-1860: Education: Chronology
Dec 1, 2017 · The election of 1860 was a pivotal presidential election that brought Abraham Lincoln to the White House amid debates on issues of slavery and states' rights.
United States - Expansion, Industrialization, Reforms: The years between the election to the presidency of James Monroe in 1816 and of John Quincy Adams in 1824 have long been known in American history as the Era of Good Feelings. The phrase was conceived by a Boston editor during Monroe’s visit to New England early in his first term. That a representative of the heartland of Federalism ...
May 13, 2024 · U.S. presidential election of 1860, American election in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. After Lincoln’s election seven Southern states seceded, setting the stage for the American Civil War.
- 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 economy in 1860 was not only much larger than it had been in 1810, it also produced a much wider range of products than ever before. The industrialization of the economy changed the material lives of people living in the United States.
The Election of 1860 and Secession. As the fall of 1860 approached, a four-way race for the Presidency—and the future of America—emerged. The ghost of John Brown, the militant abolitionist hung after his actions at Harper’s Ferry, loomed large in early 1860. In April, the Democratic Party convened in Charleston, South Carolina ...
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Period 4: 1800-1848. The new republic struggled to define and extend democratic ideals in the face of rapid economic, territorial, and demographic changes. Topics may include: Image Source: A detail from The Times, a lithograph by Edward Williams Clay and Henry R. Robinson, printed in New York, 1837.
