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2 days ago · 1796 United States presidential election; Party Candidate Votes % Federalist: John Adams: 35,726 53.4% Democratic-Republican: Thomas Jefferson (vice president) 31,115 46.5% Democratic-Republican: Aaron Burr: n/a n/a Democratic-Republican: Samuel Adams: n/a n/a Federalist: Oliver Ellsworth: n/a n/a Democratic-Republican: George Clinton: n/a n/a ...
1 day ago · The Democratic party split in 1860, producing two presidential candidates. Breckinridge was nominated by the rebel Southern Democrats; Stephen Douglas was the official nominee by the Northern Democrats.
1 day ago · Lincoln ran for president in 1860, sweeping the North to gain victory. Pro-slavery elements in the South viewed his election as a threat to slavery, and Southern states began seceding from the nation. During this time, the newly formed Confederate States of America began seizing federal military bases in the South.
3 days ago · James Buchanan (born April 23, 1791, near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died June 1, 1868, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania) was the 15th president of the United States (1857–61), a moderate Democrat whose efforts to find a compromise in the conflict between the North and the South failed to avert the Civil War (1861–65). Origins and bachelorhood.
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1 day ago · In 1860 the Democrats split over the slavery issue, as the Northern and Southern wings of the party nominated different candidates (Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Breckinridge, respectively); the election that year also included John Bell, the nominee of the Constitutional Union Party.
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4 days ago · The Secession Crisis intensified when Abraham Lincoln was elected President in November 1860. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union. Afterward, President James Buchanan refused to surrender Federal forts and installations to states that seceded from the Union.
3 days ago · The deep divisions within the party resulted in protracted battles between delegates at the party’s convention in 1856, which required 49 ballots to select a nominee, and at its convention in 1860, which required 57.
