A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue ... The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal. His victory, without a single ...

So many people died.” Just how witless is his notion that the Civil War was justly avoidable? In 1860 Lincoln and the Republican Party had pledged to prohibit slavery in all states newly ...

The simmering national issue that pitted southern planter “aristocracy” against northern democracy was quickly coming to a boiling point by the election of 1860. The greatest issue ... in four years ...

“Which part of the Civil War ‘could have been negotiated ... But Lincoln’s election in 1860 for the Republican Party, which formed around a platform of stopping the spread of slavery ...

November 6th has been a significant date in American history, particularly for presidential elections. In 1860, Abraham ...