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2 giorni fa · Republican. The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin [2] won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery ...
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2 giorni fa · May 10 – Astor Place Riot occurs in Manhattan. June 6 – Fort Worth, Texas is founded. September 1 – The first segment of the Pennsylvania Railroad, from Lewistown, Pennsylvania to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, opens for service. September 17 – Harriet Tubman emancipates herself.
4 giorni fa · In 1859, an American farmer shot a British pig on tiny San Juan Island, in the northern part of present-day Washington State. As tensions over the pig mounted, British warships gathered off the coast, and defiant Americans began to set up a military camp.
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1 giorno fa · In the 1830s large numbers of Americans began to settle in Texas and they encroached on Comancheria, the proto-empire of the Comanches. A series of battles between Americans and Comanches and their Kiowa and Kiowa Apache allies continued until the 1870s. Josiah P. Wilbarger being scalped by Comanches, 1833
22 ore fa · America was the first of the European colonies to separate successfully from its motherland, and it was the first nation to be established on the premise that sovereignty rests with its citizens and not with the government.
2 giorni fa · This event, known as the Pig War, resulted in a 12-year joint occupation of San Juan Island in Washington State's Salish Sea. The conflict began on June 15, 1859, when Lyman Cutlar, an American farmer, shot a pig owned by Charles Griffin, an agent of the British-owned Hudson Bay Company. The pig had been repeatedly rooting up Cutlar's potato ...
5 giorni fa · In the history books, Brown is most associated with the armed raid on the U.S. Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in 1859, for which he was convicted as a traitor and hung, but a visit to...
