The Election Of 1860: Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas vs. John C. Breckinridge vs. John Bell
Intro: Hello and welcome back to another edition of the presidential election articles as I'll discussing the Election of 1860, undoubtedly one of the most important presidential elections in American history as the nation is on the brink of civil war and four different candidates are looking to become the president, but at what cost? A Divided Nation For much of the 1850's, the United States is destroying itself over the issue of slavery as a number of events like the brutal canning of Charles Sumner at the hands of fellow senator, Preston Brooks on the Senate floor to the conflict known as 'Bleeding Kansas' which was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to the 1859 arsenal raid and later public hanging of abolitionist John Brown, t he U.S. was divided more than it had ever been before. Perhaps one of the greatest examples of the how slavery became such a dividing topic in America would have to be the Supreme Court decision regarding African American slave, Dred Scott