People were able to eat more meat and high-quality bread, which in turn would have improved health
After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, the southern states started to secede from the Union. The first state to secede (aka leave) the Union was South Carolina, which left roughly one month after Lincoln was elected. After South Carolina left, 6 other states would secede within the next three months. These states developed their own nation known as the Confederate States of America. This secession would spark conflict between the North and South, resulting in the American Civil War.
John Quincy Adams was the successor to President Monroe who broke the grasp of the Virginia Dynasty.
The total number of victims is estimated at about 22,000. The victims were
executed in the Katyn forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons, and
elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during
the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, and
the rest were arrested Polish Intellegentsia who the Soviets considered to be
"intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers,
officials and priests"
