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It’s
1860
• Large cities. New York, Boston, and other major cities tripled or even quadrupled in size from 1820 to 1860 as people left their farms to find work in the cities.
• Semipro organized baseball clubs had sprung up all over New York. First officially organized baseball game played in California was in 1860
• Women gaining voice in public life
The North – New York City 1860
1860
• Economy based on agriculture and supported by slave labor
• Higher education became possible for women, but they were still expected to marry and stay at home with their children.
• John Brown had just been hanged in December of ‘59 for his raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
The South - Charleston, SC 1860
Abraham Lincoln is
selected as the U.S.
presidential candidate for
the new Republican
Party.
The election of 1860 had four candidates.
Yay!
The vote for Abraham Lincoln was mostly a vote for moderation toward the issue of slavery and a vote for the Union.
However, the South felt it no longer had a voice in the national government and did not see how it could remain in the Union.
At a state convention held six weeks after Election Day, South Carolina legislators voted to secede. It was a unanimous vote.
secede (v.): to make a formal withdrawal of membership from an organization or alliance
unanimous (adj): everyone in agreement
Outgoing President Buchanan publicly condemned South
Carolina’s action.
However, he did not use force to prevent it.
Within weeks, six other Southern states
followed South Carolina.