Adams was also very likely to win because he was the Secretary of State. Though it was of lesser extent, Clay had some support from his role in the war of 1812 and his ability to speak well. Crawford was the secretary of war and the secretary of the treasury during previous administrations
After reading the letters and secret diaries of Samuel Sewall and William Byrd, I was able to see the views and perspectives of two great, but very different men. Samuel Sewall was born in England and came to America, to Massachusetts in 1661 with his parents at a young age. He received his education at Harvard, studying theology. Sewall was a judge during the Salem witch trials and also served a as member of the Colonial Governors Council, where he served as Chief Justice.
Abraham Lincoln would lead the Republican Party even though he did not win the south over in the election. He promised that he would save the Union no matter what the cost. This disconnect in policy would later lay the basis for the Civil War, which started in 1861. He never envisioned a proclamation or ending slavery but he was ultimately committed to saving the Union from the succeeding south. Lincoln gave into the antislavery Republicans toward the end of the war and finally decided to make slavery the true basis of the war.
The actual nomination occurred a year later during the second convention in Baltimore. On September 28, 1831, Wirt became a presidential candidate after the fifth ballot. Amos Ellmaker became his running mate. Wirt is the only person from Maryland to ever become a Presidential candidate who won any electoral votes.
Stephen Douglas, an advocate of popular sovereignty, and Abraham Lincoln, a Republican candidate, were both running to represent Illinois in the United States Senate. These two men met in a sequence of seven debates before they battled for office of presidency in the election of 1858. Slavery eventually became the main issue discussed repeatedly in each of the debates, due to the Mexican War adding new territories left to be assessed as free soil or not. During this time, the Compromise of 1850 was a temporary fix to the sectional issues for the states that made the decision to participate in the extension of slavery. However, the Missouri Compromise of 1854 brought the issue back up again.
Joseph Montesino Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election on November 6, 1860 without the support of a single southern state. Abraham Lincoln proposes banning slavery in all the American territories to stop it spreading. The Crittenden Compromise was proposed as a constitutional amendment by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden on December 18th, 1860 to assured the continuation of slavery in states where it already existed, in hope of preventing the First State to secede from the Union. Two days before Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration, the Crittenden Compromise failed and was rejected.
In attempt to prevent Douglas's reelection, Lincoln was voted to be the Republican's candidate in the election for one of Illinois's two U.S. Senate seats.
Also in 1848 the Whigs party won the presidential election by nominating
Douglas's senate. He was a Republican. With the Lincoln-Douglas Debates going on and plus Douglas's political nature that had been going on, the campaign started to attracted people from everywhere all over the nation. A lot of the people who heard about the Lincoln-Douglas Debates thought the Democratic party was going to keep hold of the unity and face the State rights and the Slave issues. Other thought that the Lincoln-Douglas Debates were going to help the union itself.
Douglas, was an important election that would, and did, go down in history. Lincoln had opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, created by Stephen Douglas, which lead him into becoming a Republican. Here, nobody was able to Compromise. He ran against Stephen Douglas, and won the election with getting one hundred eighty electoral votes, and Douglas getting twelve (Southern Democrat Breckinridge seventy-two, and Constitutional Union Bell getting thirty-nine) (Doc H).
After the election, the candidate who won was General Ulysses S. Grant. Therefore the republican party won the presidential election. In total, Ulysses S. Grant had gathered 214 electoral votes, where as Horatio Seymour had only a total of 80 electoral votes. At the time the presidential candidate only needed 214 electoral votes to win the presidency because not all of the 50 states were established at the time. In the year 1868 there was only a total of 294 electoral votes.
Decisions made in the 1850s ultimately decided the United States fate. From the election of 1856 to the Dred Scott case, the nation would become divided into two. The South was pro-slavery and supported the idea of slavery expanded into western territories, while the North opposed of the idea and was mainly against expanding slavery. Until the 1850s the nation barely balanced the slavery issue.
While the Know Nothings, Abolitionists, and Danites still existed, their candidates (if any) really had no match compared to the popularity of some of the Democratic and Republican representatives. As a Republican, Lincoln was often forced to ignore some other similar views he had with Democrats like Stephen Douglas. For the sake of politics, Lincoln could not find common ground and work with others to better the country. He had to be aggressive and focus on opposing viewpoints to get his campaign off the
Lincolns name was not even in the ballot in the southern states, causing him to win no southern states. Although Lincoln did not win a single southern state, people in the south voted on four different people, not including Lincoln. Because he was very popular in the northern states, Lincoln had won every single state in the north. Brekinridge was the
The history of the President William Howard Taft began when Roosevelt “handpicked his secretary of war” to run for the role of president after Roosevelt. Taft ran as a republican against William Jennings Bryan, and he won an easy victory.
