Election of 1860 (Tindall, 1999)

Textbook
George Brown Tindall and David E. Shi, eds., America: A Narrative History, 5th ed. (2 vols., New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1999), 1: 715-716.
Of the four candidates, not one was able to command a national following, and the campaign evolved into a choice between Lincoln and Douglas in the North, Breckenridge and Bell in the South. Once consequence of these separate campaigns was that each section gained a false impression of one another. The South never learned to distinguish Lincoln from the radicals; the North failed to gauge the force of southern intransigence--and in this Lincoln was among the worst.

Harpers Ferry Raid (Bailey, 1998)

Textbook
Thomas A. Bailey and David M. Kennedy, eds., The American Spirit, 9th ed. (2 vols., Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998), 1: 426-27.
The fanatical abolitionist John Brown plotted a large slave insurrection at Harpers Ferry in western Virginia.  Purchasing arms with about $3,000 provided by sympathetic Northern abolitionists, he launched his abortive enterprise with a score of men, including two of his own sons.  Wounded and captured, after the loss of several innocent lives, he was given every opportunity to pose as a martyr while being tried.  he was found guilty of three capital offenses: conspiracy with slaves, murder, and treason.  Most of the abolitionists who had financed his enterprise ran fo

Wilson County, Tennessee, 1857

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Mitchell's New Universal Atlas.... (Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1857), 27.
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Williamson County, Tennessee, 1857

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White County, Tennessee, 1857

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Weakley County, Tennessee, 1857

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Wayne County, Tennessee, 1857

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Washington County, Tennessee, 1857

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Mitchell's New Universal Atlas.... (Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1857), 27.
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