2024 Election

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was elected President of the United States of America on November 6, 1860, for a four-year term. One year later, on November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was elected President of the Confederate States of America for a six-year term.

Between those two dates, eleven states, each in the south, voted to secede from the Union and form their own government, the Confederates States of America.

That division between north and south over the issue of slavery had widened into a chasm that neither side could bridge. It was Lincoln's victory that prompted the southe...