The Election of 1860 and the Administration of Abraham Lincoln
by Schlesinger, Arthur Meier; Israel, Fred L.; Frent, David J.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-02-01
Publisher(s): Mason Crest
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Summary
The "most momentous" election in American history took place in a United States deeply divided over the issue of slavery. Each of the four major party candidates won electoral votes, and Republican Abraham Lincoln, who carried the votes of the northern states, emerged as the winner despite gathering less than 40 percent of the national popular ballot. Just weeks after Lincoln's election, the states of the Deep South voted to secede from the Union. In The Election of 1860 and the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, William E. Gienapp, a specialist in antebellum politics, describes the campaign and its aftermath. Book jacket.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 6 |
| The Election of 1860 | p. 17 |
| Facts at a Glance | p. 38 |
| 1858 "House Divided" Speech | p. 43 |
| Republican Party Platform of 1860 | p. 49 |
| Democratic Party Platforms | p. 55 |
| Constitutional Union Platform | p. 59 |
| The Crittenden Compromise | p. 61 |
| Lincoln's First Inaugural Address | p. 67 |
| Message to Congress, July 4, 1861 | p. 79 |
| The Homestead Act of 1862 | p. 89 |
| The Pacific Railway Act | p. 95 |
| Letter to Horace Greeley | p. 99 |
| The Emancipation Proclamation | p. 101 |
| The Gettysburg Address | p. 105 |
| Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction | p. 107 |
| Lincoln's Veto of the Wade-Davis Bill | p. 113 |
| The Wade-Davis Manifesto | p. 115 |
| Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address | p. 119 |
| Further Reading | p. 122 |
| Index | p. 124 |
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