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 ...

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 ...

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

An image from Harper’s Weekly depicts the ‘Grand procession of Wide-Awakes at New York on the evening of October 3, 1860 ... helped bring the Civil War. The point is not that 21st century ...

America’s secession winter, the period between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and his inauguration ... cascading ...