More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the ... The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal. His victory, without ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

This media landscape helped bring about the Civil War. Jon Grinspan ... had been around for centuries, but as American rates ...

This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from 1860 to 1899. More than 550,000 Americans died fighting the Civil War, including these men who fell during the bloody Battle ...

Even in the Civil War, baseball was a central part of American culture. As the lithograph’s depiction suggests, baseball was not unknown to Americans in 1860. Bat-and-ball games in America came with ...

The course gives a survey of American literature, culture, and history from the Civil War till World War I. In the study of the literature of the period particular emphasis will be placed on realism, ...

When the Civil War broke out in 1861 ... After Abraham Lincoln in 1860 South Carolina withdrew from the Union, followed by Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida.