Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois
The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin emerged triumphant. The election of Lincoln served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War.
Nacirema is American spelled backward. The “shrine room” Miner describes is the bathroom and the box with magical potions is the medicine cabinet. This description of what is common to the American culture is depicted throughout the article to add effect.
Answer: D. The Roman Emperor Constantine I, also called Constantine theGreat (272-337) built his residence in Byzantium, and the city now known as Instanbul was called Constantinople after his name, (New Rome was a title that wasn't official). It became the capital of the Byzantine Empire that lasted <em>more than one thousand years</em>.
