On election day itself, the Wide Awake clubs helped elect Lincoln by passing out ballots, going door-to-door to help convince undecided voters, and escorting voters to polling places.

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 ...

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Author and history professor Rachel Shelden discussed the campaigns for the presidential nominees in the 1860 election.

In his 1860 endorsement of Abraham Lincoln, The Atlantic's founding editor predicted, accurately, that the coming election would be "a turning-point in our history." ...

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The claim: 10 states removed Abraham Lincoln from the ballot in the 1860 presidential election A Dec. 21, 2023, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of President Abraham Lincoln.

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Early in the 1860 election, a core of young clerks in Connecticut formed a club to help campaign for the antislavery Republican Party. They happened to live in the state with the highest literacy ...

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.

The Wide Awakes: The 1860 Election Was Influenced By Young People Advocating Against Slavery The Wide Awakes symbol was a single eye, open to the danger slavery posed.