On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

The latter issue was of paramount concern for the Southern states, whose economy was highly dependent on agriculture, unlike the more industrialized states of the North. A fracture point was reached ...

SAVANNAH, Ga., Friday, Nov. 23, 1860. Since my last letter I have passed through most of the Southern States, and can give you, briefly, the results of my observation. In Kentucky, I believe a ...

The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal. His victory, without a single Southern electoral vote, was a clear signal to the Southern states that they had ...

But in the present case (that of the proffered alliance of the Southern States) the question of independence is complicated by a question of Slavery, and the one flings an unhappy shadow over the ...

Throughout the early 1860s, the Northern and Southern states held sustained disagreements ... A fracture point was reached in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln, an opponent of slavery, was elected to ...