Abraham Lincoln led his country through a tumultuous period and played an instrumental role in abolishing slavery while preserving the Union as the 16th president of the United States.
successful presidential campaign ofAbraham Lincoln, the candidate of the antislaveryRepublican Party. Lincoln’s victory in turn prompted the Southern slave states to secede and form theConfederate States of Americain 1860–61. Emancipation ProclamationEmancipation Proclamation, 1863....
Mary Todd Lincoln, American first lady (1861–65), the wife of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States. Happy and energetic in her youth, she suffered subsequent ill health and personal tragedies and behaved erratically in her later years.
also includedJohn Bell, the nominee of theConstitutional Union Party. Thus, the Republican candidate,Abraham Lincoln, was able tocapture the presidency, winning 18 Northern states and receiving 60 percent of the electoral vote but only 40 percent of the popular vote. By the time of Lincoln’s ...
Dred Scott decisionNewspaper notice for a pamphlet on the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision. 5 of 5 Abraham Lincoln campaign bannerThis American flag banner promoted Abraham Lincoln for the U.S. presidency in 1860. During the first half of the 19th century, movements to extend voting...
Dred Scott decisionNewspaper notice for a pamphlet on the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision.(more) 5 of 5 Abraham Lincoln campaign bannerThis American flag banner promoted Abraham Lincoln for the U.S. presidency in 1860.(more) ...
Abraham Lincoln’s death in 1865, Vice Pres. Andrew Johnson privately took the presidential oath in his residence in Washington, D.C. After John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president on Air Force One while the plane sat at Dallas’s airport. ...
Thus, the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln, was able to capture the presidency, winning 18 Northern states and receiving 60 percent of the electoral vote but only 40 percent of the popular vote. By the time of Lincoln’s inauguration as president, however, seven Southern states had seceded...
the nominee of theConstitutional Union Party, andAbraham Lincoln, the candidate of the newly established (1854) antislavery Republican Party (which was unrelated to Jefferson’s Republican Party of decades earlier). With the Democrats hopelessly split, Lincoln was electedpresidentwith only about 40 pe...
also includedJohn Bell, the nominee of theConstitutional Union Party. Thus, the Republican candidate,Abraham Lincoln, was able tocapture the presidency, winning 18 Northern states and receiving 60 percent of the electoral vote but only 40 percent of the popular vote. By the time of Lincoln’s ...