A consensus emerged at the May 1860 convention that the party’s nominee would need to carry all the free states-for only in that situation could a Republican nominee potentially win. Several leading Republican men vied for their party’s nomination. Initially, the Republicans were hardly unified around a single candidate themselves. ![]() The nation’s oldest party had split over differences in policy toward slavery. Breckinridge of Kentucky as their presidential candidate. A subsequent convention in Baltimore nominated Douglas for the Democratic ticket, while southerners nominated current Vice President John C. The parties leaders refusal to include a pro-slavery platform resulted in Southern delegates walking out of the convention, preventing Douglas from gaining the two-thirds majority required for a nomination. Northern Democrats pulled for Senator Stephen Douglas, a pro-slavery moderate championing popular sovereignty, while Southern Democrats were intent on endorsing someone other than Douglas. In April, the Democratic Party convened in Charleston, South Carolina, the bastion of secessionist thought in the South. The goal was to nominate a candidate for the party ticket, but the party was deeply divided. The Election of 1860 and SecessionĪs the fall of 1860 approached, a four-way race for the Presidency-and the future of America-emerged. The Civil War was a defining event in the history of the United States and, for the Americans thrust into it, a wrenching one. Simultaneously, women thrust themselves into critical wartime roles while navigating a world without many men of military age. African Americans, both enslaved and free pressed the issue of emancipation and nurtured this transformation. ![]() The vast majority of northerners went to war to preserve the Union, but the war ultimately transformed into a struggle to eradicate slavery. 1 The war touched the life of nearly every American as military mobilization reached levels never seen before or since. The American Civil War, the bloodiest in the nation’s history, resulted in approximately 750,000 deaths. The American Yawp The Civil War Introduction Thomas Balcerski and Christopher Abernathy / īalcerski: Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Connecticut State UniversityĪbernathy: PhD Candidate in American History, The University of Oklahoma
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