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12 hours ago · Abraham Lincoln, a portrait by Mathew Brady taken February 27, 1860, the day of Lincoln's Cooper Union speech in New York City. Lincoln accepted the nomination with great enthusiasm and zeal. After his nomination he delivered his House Divided Speech, with the biblical reference Mark 3:25, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe ...
- April 15, 1865 (aged 56), Washington, D.C., U.S.
- James Buchanan
- February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky, U.S.
- Andrew Johnson
1 day ago · t. e. The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery would ...
- April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865, (4 years, 1 month and 2 weeks)
- Dissolution of the Confederate States of America
4 days ago · The Ten Percent plan was a Reconstruction plan for the south put forward by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The basics of the plan were that a state would be readmitted when 10 percent of its 1860 voting population had taken an oath of allegiance to the Union and accepted the end of slavery.
- Mark Zubarev
- 2015
162 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln signs the 1862 Homestead Act Today in History The act, which went into effect on Jan. 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, allowed potential farmers to file a claim for 160 acres.
12 hours ago · Abraham Lincoln was able to navigate the political and military landscape of the war. As president during one of the nation's most tumultuous periods, Lincoln's challenges included managing a ...
5 days ago · Lincoln is elected president in November 1860, but does not take office until March 1861. In the interim, fearing the forthcoming Republican administration, South Carolina moves to secede from the union and begins ringing its harbor with cannon batteries, the guns pointed at the federal garrison on the impregnable island redoubt, Fort Sumter.
1 day ago · 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 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 ...
