Today is November 6th. On this day in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States against a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.
Lincoln received only 40 percent of the vote, but easily defeated three other candidates. Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois.
There was a fierce competition with Douglas for the Senate seat.
Lincoln, a Kentucky-born lawyer and former representative in Congress, first came to national prominence during his campaign against Stephen Douglas of Illinois for a seat in the United States Senate in 1858. He campaigned publicly on the issue of slavery in the Senate campaign. This is known as the Lincoln-Douglas debate.
He strongly opposed slavery.
In it, Lincoln argued against the expansion of slavery, while Douglas said that each territory should have the right to decide whether it would be free or enslaved. Lincoln lost the Senate race, but his campaign brought the nation’s attention to the young Republican Party. In 1860, Lincoln won the party’s presidential nomination.
7 states seceded as soon as Lincoln became president
In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the sharply divided northern faction of the Democratic Party. Lincoln’s declaration of victory marked the secession of the southern states, which had been publicly threatening since the beginning of the year to secede if the Republicans took the White House.
When the civil war broke out in the United States
On March 4, 1861, seven states seceded under Lincoln and formally established the Confederate States of America, with Jefferson Davis elected as its president. A month later, the American Civil War began, when Confederate forces led by General PGT Beauregard fired on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
This is how Lincoln was assassinated
When the tide turned against the Union in 1863, Lincoln freed slaves within the rebelling states and won re-election in 1864. In April 1865, he was assassinated by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. . The attack occurred just five days after the American Civil War effectively ended.
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Lincoln was one of the great presidents of America.
Lincoln is considered one of the greatest American presidents for preserving the Union and ending slavery, as well as for his unique character and powerful oratory.
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important events
Mexico obtained its independence from Spain on November 6, 1813.
Spain liberated the Dominican Republic on November 6, 1844.
On November 6, 1913, Mahatma Gandhi led the “Great March” against the policies of apartheid in South Africa.
On November 6, 1943, during World War II, Japan handed over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
