The Wide Awakes: The 1860 Election Was Influenced By Young People Advocating Against Slavery. Story by Blake Lindsey, Taylor Malone • 3w. Y ou’ve heard it before: we are living in divided times.

Description. In the election of 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party, Vice President and Southern Democratic Party candidate John ...

Author and history professor Rachel Shelden discussed the campaigns for the presidential nominees in the 1860 election. Report Video Issue Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos.

It’s fitting, then, that the Northern pushback to expanding slavery came from the 19th century equivalent of “very online” young newspaper readers. Early in the 1860 election, a core of young clerks ...

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On Oct. 3, 1860, more than 12,000 Wide Awakes from six states wearing military hats and black capes marched through New York City’s streets. It was estimated then that the movement had reached ...

In the November 6, 1860 general election, a country lawyer who had until fairly recently been a relatively little-known figure won a four-way national presidential race running on an anti-Slavery ...

The 1860 election may be the most important in terms of picking the right person at the right time, although it might not have been immediately apparent to a nation tearing itself apart over slavery.

Their efforts led to one of the highest voter turnouts in U.S. history, with a staggering 82% of eligible voters casting their ballots in 1860. On election day itself, the Wide Awake clubs helped ...