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abraham lincoln elected
was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860 and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. The United States had been divided during the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. In 1860, these issues broke the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern factions, and a new Constitutional Union Party appeared. In the face of a divided opposition, the Republican Pa -
Lincoln assassinated
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865 -
14th amendtent
The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
15th amendtent
to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
ku klux klan
In Monroe county,Missippi the klan destroys 26 schools
The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. Members adopted white costumes: robes, masks, and conical hats, designed to be outlandish and terrifying, and to hide their identities -
sam tilden
was the 25th Governor of New York and the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Presidency in the disputed election of 1876, one of the most controversial and closest American elections of the 19th century.