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	U.S. presidential election, 1856 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The U.S. presidential election of 1856 was waged almost entirely on the issue of slavery, pitted as a struggle between democracy and aristocracy, and focusing specifically on Kansas.
		The newly formed Republican Party condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act and expansion of slavery, while Democrats took more of a laissez-faire approach to slavery expansion, taking the official position that it was a state-by-state decision.
		Foreshadowing the results of the presidential election of 1860 (won by Abraham Lincoln), Frémont received less than 600 votes from slave states - those all coming from Delaware and Maryland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1856 (355 words)

	Presidential Election of 1856 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The election of 1856 took place against the backdrop of civil war in Kansas and a country split over slavery.
		James Buchanan was the front runner at the Democratic convention in Cincinnati in June 1856.
		The election would be decided in the North East and in the North East enough voters feared the threats of the south to secede that Buchanan won.
	www.multieducator.com /elections/1856.html (253 words)

	Origins of the American Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nevertheless, the campaign of 1856 was waged almost exclusively on the slavery issue—pitted as a struggle between democracy and aristocracy—focusing on the question of Kansas.
		Despite their significant loss in the election of 1856, Republican leaders realized that even though they appealed only to Northern voters, they need win only two more states, such as Pennsylvania and Illinois, to win the presidency in 1860.
		Once the election returns were certain, a special South Carolina convention declared "that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states under the name of the 'United States of America' is hereby dissolved," heralding the secession of ten more Southern states by May 21, 1861.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War (12215 words)

	Why Lincoln? - Jerry L. Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As the presidential election year of 1860 opened, two men expected to lead their respective parties in the campaign; William H. Seward for the Republicans and Stephen A. Douglas for the Democrats.
		In 1856, the election was overturned and a freesoil legislature was elected.
		The presidential election of 1856 reflected the change in the political scene as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
	equinox.unr.edu /homepage/jlp/article2.html (2956 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Glurge Gallery (The Glurge of Springfield) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One could claim this as a Lincoln failure in that he wanted to be a Congressman and failed to achieve that goal, but it is technically inaccurate to claim that he "ran for Congress" in 1843 and lost: The election was held in 1844, and Lincoln was not a candidate in that election.
		So, in 1854 (and again in 1856) Lincoln was not technically running for the Senate; he was campaigning on behalf of Whig candidates for state legislature seats all throughout Illinois.
		Lincoln did not "seek" the vice-presidential nomination at the 1856 Republican national convention in Philadelphia; his name was put into nomination by the Illinois delegation after most national delegates were already committed to other candidates.
	www.snopes.com /glurge/lincoln.htm (2682 words)

	History Solidly On Side Of Dole, GOP
		The 1854 congressional elections sent 44 Republican candidates to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
		However, the Republican Party emerged from the 1856 elections as the antislavery party.
		One of Roosevelt’s main accomplishments during this election was attracting the fl vote to the Democratic Party away from the Republican Party.
	www.majorcox.com /columns/dole-96.htm (761 words)

	The Civil War, impeachment then and now, and Lincoln's legacy--Part 1
		It was part of the build-up to the presidential election of 1856.
		Elections were more frequent; the participation of the eligible electorate in elections was far higher than it is today.
		In the presidential elections in the middle part of the nineteenth century it was about 80 percent.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/may1999/mc1-m19.shtml (2685 words)

	Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War
		'Bleeding Kansas' and the elections of 1856 Main articles: U.S. presidential election, 1856 and Bleeding Kansas Missing imageJohn_brown.jpg Radical abolitionists hailed John Brown as a martyr and a hero.
		Sectional ideologies grew more and more vitriolic after 1856, and the growth of mass politics allowed these sentiments to enter politics with the help of the pamphlets, speeches, and newspaper articles by the Republican radicals.
		The Times maintained that for the Republicans to be competitive in the 1860 elections, they would need to broaden their base of support to include all voters who for one reason or another were upset with the Buchanan administration.
	www.news-from-newspapers.com /en/Wikipedia.org/2005/04/18/Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War.html (7939 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		In 1856 the county assessor, realizing the effect of this problem on farmers, commented that "the distance of the county from the principal markets, [has] had a tendency to retard agricultural pursuits, and much land that might be advantageously cultivated, is now left for the free use of stock."
		Throughout the period 1846 to 1856 it was evident that San Diego residents continued to experience economic hardships and the Californios in the community met additional financial demands placed on them by the new government.
		In the election of 1849 the military governor of the state declared that every free male citizen of the United States and Upper California who was twenty-one years of age could vote, if they were residents of their electoral district.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/75summer/decline.htm (19173 words)

	The Patriotist - Guest Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Election reform was addressed by the Confederate Convention in revisions of the the first clauses of both Section 2 and 3 of Article I. Section 2 deals with the election of members of the House of Representatives.
		The time for senatorial elections was left open to political manipulation in the states, and the politicians took advantage of it.
		In the matter of election reform, the Confederate Convention placed some restrictions on State's Rights; but this was not the general trend of the reforms coming out of Montgomery.
	www.patriotist.com /miscarch/dc20000515.htm (2597 words)

	3rd Party System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Taylor won the election but died 1950, succeeded by Millard Fillmore of NY who favored compromise over slavery.
		The Whig party was weakened by growing antislavery factions led by William Seward of Ohio, John Hale nominated by Free Soilers who denounced Compromise of 1850 and demanded repeal of Fugitive Slave Law.
		1856 - The Republican party, and the nation's Third Party System, was born in the Congregational church in Ripon, Wis., Feb. 28, 1854, to protest the Kansas-Nebraska Act of Stephen Douglas.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/civilwar/04/third-party.html (421 words)

	The Elections of 1856 and 1992
		In 1856, the unresolved issue was that of slavery.
		The result is the same as in 1856; a lack of national consensus and the division of the nation into two camps.
		The most obvious parallel between the election of 1856 and 1992 is the sense of national frustration in the air.
	www.forerunner.com /forerunner/X0435_Elections_of_1856_an.html (580 words)

	Civil Pandemonium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Constitution Act was given royal assent on 16 July 1855, was recieved by the then Governor Sir Charles Hotham on 23rd October 1855, and proclaimed a month later.
		Elections for the new Parliament of Victoria were held in the Spring.
		It was sworn in on 21st November 1856 and opened on the 25th November 1856.
	www.civilpandemonium.com /post.php?postid=8 (543 words)

	Chapter 2. NicaraguaHistory, social conflict, and mission for peace: International Development Research Centre
		This election was held within the framework of a new electoral law approved by the Nicaraguan Congress in 1923 (Greer 1954; Kamman 1968).
		The regimes of the US-controlled elections of the post-Zelaya era proved to be fragile and artificial solutions to Nicaragua’s domestic political problems, as demonstrated by the instability and the high levels of political disorder prevalent in the country after 1910.
		Other indications are the serious cultural divisions created by the Nicaraguan diaspora; the return to Nicaragua of thousands of exiles after the elections of the 1990; and the tendency toward the politicization of religious loyalties, as expressed in the formation of evangelical political parties and the increasing political influence of the Roman Catholic Church.
	www.idrc.org /en/ev-29537-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html (8048 words)

	SkyMinds.Net (American Civilization: Ante-bellum South)
		It was hoped it would become a national party but as a matter of fact, it disintegrated after the elections of 1856.
		In 1856, the Democrat James Buchanan was elected President.
		During the elections of 1857, the North voted strongly Republican and gave this party the lead in the House of Representatives.
	www.skyminds.net /civilization/10_ante-bellum_south.php (871 words)

	Life of the parties / Cultural conservatism key to recent Republican successes, historian says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There is something on virtually every one of the 36 presidential elections since 1856, when the first Republican ran.
		Following the Schwarzenegger election last month, the GOP now controls the governorship in the nation's four largest states -- California, Texas, Florida and New York -- as well as the White House and both houses of Congress.
		The most important fact about the 2000 presidential election is not the Florida fiasco, but the fact that Al Gore could not carry once-loyal Democratic states such as West Virginia, Kentucky, his home state of Tennessee and Arkansas, largely over cultural issues.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/23/RV210978.DTL&type=printable (769 words)

	NewTexas\politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The elections of 1880 show 1,250 votes for Hancock, 477 for Garfield and 285 for Weaver, and of 1884, 1,652 for Cleveland and 970 for Blaine.
		There are no returns of elections for district representatives or county officers from 1862 to 1873, but in other pages the returns for presidential and gubernatorial candidates are given.
		Geiger elected, which election was contested and Speck given the position by the supreme court; collector, John Kay (R), 380; T. Bradford (D), 766, probate judge, L. Thorp (I), 511; J. Barnes (D), 625; assessor, W.
	www.rootsweb.com /~motexas/politics.htm (1159 words)

	RhodesCook.com -- Analysis
		Through the 1948 election, the GOP regularly lost the South but often won the White House by sweeping every other part of the country.
		Yet since the middle of the last century, Republicans have become increasingly dependent on the South – to the point that in each of the last three presidential elections, the region has provided the GOP with at least 60% of the party’s electoral votes.
		In nearly three-fourths of the elections from 1856 through 1948 (17 of 24), the GOP failed to carry a single Southern state.
	www.rhodescook.com /south.gop.html (1418 words)

	American Presidential Elections 1789-1856 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Electors were chosen by legislatures in many states, not by popular vote, in early elections.
		In this election, and in others until 1804, each elector voted for two men without indicating which was to be president and which vice president.
		Because the two houses of the New York legislature could not agree on electors, the state did not cast its electoral vote.
	www.search.eb.com /elections/etable1.html (190 words)

	NewsHour Extra: Third Parties
		Info about financing campaigns for federal office, the rules and regulations pertaining to this process, or elections and voting in general.
		History shows third parties have had-- and continue to have-- significant effects on the political system, even when their candidates don't win elections.
		In 1856 the Republicans, then a minor party, got one-third of the popular vote and 11 states; four years later, they elected Abraham Lincoln.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/extra/features/july-dec00/thirdparties-rc.html (1260 words)

	Third-Party Voting in Gubernatorial Elections: A Study of Angus King of Maine and Jesse Ventura of Minnesota - Questia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Third-Party voting in gubernatorial elections: a study of Angus King of Maine and Jesse Ventura of Minnesota *.
		When Ross Perot won nearly 20 percent of the vote in the 1992 presidential election, many political observers saw in Perot the beginning of the end of the major parties' stranglehold on American politics.
		Perot won only 8 percent of the vote in 1996, but the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections marked the first pair of consecutive elections since 1856 and 1860 in which alternative candidates won more than 10 percent of the vote.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5001926354 (553 words)

	The Troubles In Kansas - 1856 Report
		On November 29, 1854, an election for a delegate to Congress was held.
		On March 30, 1855, an election of the Territorial Legislature was held.
		A complete name index of the 1856 Report of the Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas is available through the compiler, Robert A. Hodge.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/troubles.html (1032 words)

	President of the United States - Biocrawler definition:President of the United States - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The modern Presidential election process begins with the primary elections, during which the major parties (currently the Democrats and the Republicans) each select a nominee to unite behind; the nominee in turn selects a running mate to join him on the ticket as the Vice Presidential candidate.
		The two major candidates then face off in the general election, usually participating in nationally televised debates before Election Day and campaigning across the country to explain their views and plans to the voters.
		This fact was confirmed by Congress when it certified his election, as it defined the beginning of the administration as the instant Polk left office.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/President_of_the_United_States (4152 words)

	Chapter Three
		Instead, he began planning his campaign for election to the Senate by the Illinois State Legislature in 1858.
		In the summer of 1856, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax and denounced the Mexican War.
		At the beginning of the year, the presidential election was over, but Democratic candidate, Samuel Tilden had 184 electoral votes and needed only one more to win.
	www.us-history.org /chap_3.html (4369 words)

	The National Archives \| Search other Archives \| Accessions to Repositories \| Major Accessions to Repositories 1994: ...
		Fabian Society, LCC Election 1892: election leaflets of candidates for the London County Council Election of 1892 and returns to the questionnaire issued as Fabian Tract No 26, Questions for London County Councillors.
		Fabian Society: School Board Elections: 1899-1902, Ephemera relating to School Board Elections and the 1902 Education Bill and replies to a Fabian Society questionnaire about the constitution of School Boards, Town or Urban District Councils and Boards of Guardians in 1899.
		LCC Election 1907: 1906-1907, papers illustrating the 1907 London County Council Election, particularly the Progressive Party; they include leaflets notes and replies to questions by Wallas.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /accessions/1994/94returns/94ac97.htm (1485 words)

	LANE, J. MSS
		In addition to the manuscripts which are primarily of Oregon interest the collection contains letters and papers of national significance relating to politics; the elections of 1856 and 1860; the Democratic national convention at Charleston and Baltimore, 1860; secession and the Civil War.
		For states other than Oregon there is correspondence on politics in California, Indiana, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Washington; on the state elections of 1856 in California, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Washington; and on the Democratic state conventions in New Hampshire in 1856 and in Indiana in 1860.
		Included also is an undated Joseph Lane banner as a candidate for election to Congress; a daguerreotype and seven photographs of Joseph Lane; and photographs of Lane's daughters, his son, John, his son-in- law, La Fayette Mosher, Jefferson Davis, John Letcher, William Lowndes Yancey, Astoria, Oregon, and Roseburg, Oregon.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/lanej.html (452 words)

	OnPolitics -- Political Junkie
		I’ve said this before, but when all is said and done, the vice-presidential selection is rarely what people base their November decision upon.
		As for the state being an accurate predictor of presidential elections, that isn’t the case, though for the longest time Republicans wished it were so.
		In the 34 elections between 1856 and 1988, Maine voted Republican all but three times (1912, 1964 and 1968).
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/campaigns/junkie/archive/junkie071400.htm (972 words)

	Gridlock in the Senate [Free Republic]
		If the elections produce a Senate evenly divided between the Republican and Democratic parties, it would be only the second such instance in the Senate's two-hundred-year history.
		In the election of 1880 the Republicans had elected their presidential candidate and a majority of the House of Representatives.
		Although their solid majority had vanished with the 1880 elections, Senate Democrats believed that as long as they could count on Mahone's vote they could continue to control the legislature's considerable fund of patronage appointments and the chairmanships of the most important committees.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a215d5107fb.htm (2809 words)

	National Women's Rights Convention; 1856 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By 1856, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were organizing two annual state women's rights conventions in New York to support petition campaigns and distribute literature.
		At the seventh national convention, presiding officer Lucy Stone rejoiced in reforms in women's property rights laws in nine northern and midwestern states, and in widows' right to vote in school elections in Kentucky.
		The convention resolutions delighted in the new Republican party's appeal for female participation in campaign events during the 1856 elections.
	www.nps.gov /wori/nwrc1856.htm (222 words)

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