Birney The Liberty Party was the political outgrowth of the growing ... 1860: Republicans: Abraham Lincoln The Republican Party absorbed anti-slavery Whigs and most Know-Nothings.

The Federalist Party, the nation’s first political party, saw only one president, John Adams. Additionally, Abraham Lincoln, ...

This proved prophetic with the collapse of the national party systems ... achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the ...

The death of three children and her husband's preoccupation with political matters during the Civil War would only make matters worse. Abraham ... members of his party, Lincoln believed it would ...

From this year 1832 we enter upon the public life of Abraham Lincoln. He was twenty-three years of age only, and yet it was thought that his popularity would ensure his party success. He was a ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.