The United States presidential election of 1860 set the stage for the American Civil War. The nation had been divided throughout most of the 1850s on questions of states' rights and slavery in the territories. In 1860, this issue finally came to a head, fracturing the formerly dominant Democratic Party into Southern and Northern factions and bringing Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party to power without the support of a single Southern state.
<span>The League of Nations was an early form of the United Nations. It was also a paper tiger in being unable to really do anything about the situation in Africa or anywhere else.</span>
The United Kingdom's industrialization was guided by individual businesses, while Russia's was guided by the government. The United Kingdom's industrialization was driven by railroads, while Russia's was driven by textile production.
