The American Presidential Election of 1860

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  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat  4 роки тому +320

    The Ultimate American Presidential Election Book: Every Presidential Election in American History (1788-2020) is now available! amzn.to/3aYiqwI

    • @kylo3458
      @kylo3458 4 роки тому +10

      Will it be available in stores

    • @superz3579
      @superz3579 4 роки тому +7

      Amazon book or in stores

    • @aidan5784
      @aidan5784 4 роки тому +22

      For your 2020 election video, you should include that it's the first election since 1976 without a member of the Bush, Clinton, or Paul family on the ballot

    • @devilangle1334
      @devilangle1334 4 роки тому +1

      Are you gonna do a vid of election of 2020 in December?

    • @rafaelrendonhernandez6483
      @rafaelrendonhernandez6483 4 роки тому +1

      What date and where you was born?

  • @swahgiilitiousyt8483
    @swahgiilitiousyt8483 6 років тому +1509

    1856 and 1860 was a 2 election streak where the loser was named John, This won't happen again until 2004 and 2008

  • @josestarks8892
    @josestarks8892 5 років тому +651

    Lincoln was a pretty cool dude. He nominated every single rival from his political party that wanted the Presidency into his cabinet. That's quite an accomplishment.

    • @asielmilian38
      @asielmilian38 4 роки тому +45

      He is the smartest president.

    • @kseshshtern9968
      @kseshshtern9968 4 роки тому +4

      he was a racist tho

    • @EVIL-C
      @EVIL-C 4 роки тому +28

      @Странно Хрипы Say that in public. I dare you. Coward.

    • @WTMNNJR
      @WTMNNJR 4 роки тому +35

      The Stuttering Gamer you are calling somebody a coward in the UA-cam comment section. I bet you would not say that to his face.

    • @kseshshtern9968
      @kseshshtern9968 4 роки тому +28

      “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.”
      -Abraham Lincoln
      “There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.”
      - Robert E. Lee

  • @joshuaford9714
    @joshuaford9714 4 роки тому +544

    Oh man, I wonder who’s gonna win
    Edit: holy shit I did not see that coming

    • @u.h.forum.
      @u.h.forum. 4 роки тому +9

      @Brad Watson real Abraham Lincoln no way

    • @getass3290
      @getass3290 4 роки тому +1

      @Brad Watson actually the Republican party was founded in 1854 get your facts straight kid

    • @whitgerianprince
      @whitgerianprince 4 роки тому +1

      @Brad Watson this is a lot of information

    • @Alx_sis
      @Alx_sis 4 роки тому

      @Brad Watson oh stfu

    • @mbamyintoo
      @mbamyintoo 3 роки тому +1

      @@Alx_sis Is it just me or do I think that your pfp looks good

  • @alexkrakowski8597
    @alexkrakowski8597 6 років тому +685

    I had someone in my American History class who’s ancestor was John C Breckinridge. Pretty cool, he looked just like him.

    • @paisleepunk
      @paisleepunk 6 років тому +35

      I wanna go to school with you now.

    • @Maddog844
      @Maddog844 5 років тому +18

      alex krakowski I’m also a Breckinridge relative through Robert e lee

    • @LilWindex1378
      @LilWindex1378 4 роки тому +9

      @@codymiller5468 Yeah theres a video that keeps popping up in my recommended about them

    • @Helloknight
      @Helloknight 3 роки тому +5

      So when’s he gonna be on the news?

    • @sparks5531
      @sparks5531 3 роки тому +8

      Wow I had actually had a descendant of John Bell in my history class

  • @morgankingsley4992
    @morgankingsley4992 6 років тому +304

    This is the only election in which a third party won the most counties. Breckinridge won over 600 counties, almost 100 more than the next highest

    • @ShowginTV
      @ShowginTV 2 роки тому +20

      That really shows how sparsely populated the South was compared to the increasingly urbanized North

  • @Obi-Wan_Kenobi
    @Obi-Wan_Kenobi 4 роки тому +137

    "South, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself."
    *-Abraham Lincoln*

  • @Ares99999
    @Ares99999 7 років тому +855

    It's interesting how people somehow blame Lincoln for the southern states' temper tantrum.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  7 років тому +307

      +Ares99999 The President is always an easy target

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 5 років тому +107

      @@stresemanniteist
      🤣😂😅😆

    • @sperez98324
      @sperez98324 5 років тому +71

      @@stresemanniteist clearly you're pro-slavery 😳

    • @capncrunch7259
      @capncrunch7259 5 років тому +106

      @@stresemanniteist No, it's not. The South couldn't bully the Northern people any more and they knew it. ( the Shrinking South ) There is no valid reason, for the Slave Power's Treason.

    • @bikr2381
      @bikr2381 5 років тому +2

      Ares99999 most definitely

  • @selahanany5645
    @selahanany5645 4 роки тому +272

    and this was the first and last election in which kansas was an important election factor lol

    • @jonaboktr5269
      @jonaboktr5269 4 роки тому +5

      Sela Hanany 1936 for the republicans
      (Landon and Borah who went to the university of Kansas)

    • @billnelson9679
      @billnelson9679 4 роки тому +14

      @@jonaboktr5269 Landon has no chance for defeating FDR.

    • @calebnovick5561
      @calebnovick5561 3 місяці тому

      And the last

  • @MFPhoto1
    @MFPhoto1 4 роки тому +109

    The main reason Democrats did not re-nominate Buchanan in 1860 is that Buchanan was not running for re-election. He announced his intention of being a one-term President in his inaugural address, effectively making him a lame duck on day one.
    Douglas did campaign, but towards the end of the election cycle, he did most of his campaigning in southern states where he was not on the ballot. He was not campaigning for votes, but to convince Southerners to stay in the Union regardless of the election outcome. It may have cost him the Presidency, not campaigning in the north.
    Had Douglas been elected, he would have the second shortest Presidency in history. He died three months after Lincoln took office. Having a Southerner as VP, it would have really altered American history.

    • @MRB16th
      @MRB16th 4 роки тому +9

      I never knew that about Buchanan.
      In my opinion, I believe he suffers badly in retrospect as his tenure came at a rather difficult point in American history: he actually accomplished his goals, despite sucession taking place, and winning the 1856 Democratic nomination from Stephen Douglas proved his political genius.

    • @oldteapot7534
      @oldteapot7534 2 роки тому +4

      That's right. He declined to run for reelection.

    • @matthewhedrichjr.5445
      @matthewhedrichjr.5445 2 роки тому +4

      @@MRB16th no offense but he was incompetent, ineffective and arrogant of his goals.

    • @IsaaacWithThreeA
      @IsaaacWithThreeA 2 роки тому +1

      True, Douglas would have lasted 3 months. That’s shorter than Fighting Bob would last had he been elected. Bob would last around nine fortnights. Also, had Douglas been elected, he would be tied with Madison in shortest president.

    • @MFPhoto1
      @MFPhoto1 2 роки тому +4

      @@IsaaacWithThreeA I remember reading that shortly after taking office, Lincoln got a visit from Douglas. Douglas offered to travel the northern states speaking up in support of the upcoming war effort. Lincoln accepted the offer, even though he know just by looking at Douglas that he was not a well man, and would not be able to fulfill his promise.

  • @Felix-wo7qz
    @Felix-wo7qz 3 роки тому +74

    I don’t even watch these videos because I need to study for school or something, I’m just interested in it. Great work mr. Beat

  • @abeIincoIn
    @abeIincoIn 3 роки тому +61

    WOOOO I WON

  • @lovingearth9119
    @lovingearth9119 4 роки тому +67

    What im learning from 1836, 1860, 1912 and 1968 is if you split a party's vote you can win big

    • @hussain6469
      @hussain6469 3 роки тому +13

      It Almost happened again in 1992...

    • @SomeRamdomAhole
      @SomeRamdomAhole 2 роки тому +2

      @@hussain6469 only difference is that Perot didn’t get an electoral vote

  • @RogerFusselman
    @RogerFusselman 4 роки тому +46

    These students are getting an excellent lesson. Buchanan, you dropped the ball more often than a first-time quarterback.

  • @ethanstokes439
    @ethanstokes439 3 роки тому +14

    Douglas died less that 3 months after Lincoln was inaugurated

  • @jamellfoster6029
    @jamellfoster6029 2 роки тому +337

    I'm Southern & the actions of the Confederates make my stomach turn...

    • @Nebulasecura
      @Nebulasecura Рік тому +31

      At least my home state of Kentucky remained in the union

    • @sharkronical
      @sharkronical Рік тому +42

      @@Wompwomp184 there's no black and white. It's just that some grays are lighter than other grays.

    • @dustinmooring698
      @dustinmooring698 Рік тому

      You mean opposing a dictator that created income taxes, suspension of habeas corpus, and all other atrocities that guy committed under the guise of "Honest Abe". You have to be a complete moron.😊

    • @Spider-Complexion
      @Spider-Complexion Рік тому +25

      “It’s our history! You won’t erase our flag!” 👴🏻

    • @isaac502i3
      @isaac502i3 Рік тому +15

      Tennesseeans take pride in being the last to leave and first to rejoin.

  • @Spongebrain97
    @Spongebrain97 3 роки тому +22

    Theres a free to play online game called Campaign Trail where you pick a relevant candidate of a specific election and your running mate and answer a series of 25 questions which are based around issues of the time. All the while you look at the map of the country which shows which party its supporting based on your responses. The election of 1860 is credibly hard af because even with Lincoln you gotta say the right things as some crucial states like Stephen Douglas such as out west and New York, New Jersey, and Indiana and you can easily lose

  • @wesmorgan7729
    @wesmorgan7729 4 роки тому +36

    It's pretty funny how the Northern Democrats chose a Southern vice presidential candidate, and the Southern Democrats chose a non-Southern vice presidential candidate.

  • @crosseightyeight
    @crosseightyeight 8 років тому +63

    How could such a high percentage of the population vote when women and blacks weren't allowed? Was is 82% of ELIGIBLE voters?

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому +123

      Yes

    • @Nixonisinhell
      @Nixonisinhell 4 роки тому +3

      I think the author assumed as much of his viewers, as we so often do, not thinking in a historical perspective. Look at the Roman works we have, that bring with them as many new questions as those they answer...

    • @CybermanKing
      @CybermanKing 4 роки тому +9

      Cross88 freed blacks and property owning women could vote too

    • @siononalundula1699
      @siononalundula1699 4 роки тому +6

      Mr. Beat then I think you should have phrased it as such. Because saying that it was “82% of the population” that voted is extremely misleading. Again, one can know that you meant “82% of eligible voters” but still, the way you phrased it as “82% of the population” can be very misleading for those who don’t know what you actually mean by it and it’s just kinda... “annoying”, for lack of a better word, for the rest of us. I know that you cannot edit these videos cuz they’re already published, but when you make the video for the 2020 Presidential Election, please phrase it as “”x”% of eligible voters”. It’d make more sense phrases that way.

    • @siononalundula1699
      @siononalundula1699 4 роки тому

      Mr. Beat I love your these videos, btw. 😃🙂

  • @jesusofsuburbia8825
    @jesusofsuburbia8825 4 роки тому +16

    School brought me here, not as boring as I thought

  • @blackwidowsm
    @blackwidowsm Рік тому +11

    Only election Lincoln defeated Stephen doughlas was presidential. He lost every other election to Douglas. Douglas was well liked and though of during that era.

  • @mrenderblockman8164
    @mrenderblockman8164 6 років тому +142

    Imagine if we had electricity in 1700

    • @bartj19
      @bartj19 4 роки тому +69

      Technically we always had electricity, in 1700 we just didn't know how to use it.

    • @danteardenz2670
      @danteardenz2670 4 роки тому +8

      Or cars ! Steam cars were being worked on, and one actually even went on sale in 1863 !

    • @fiammanerapatrick3215
      @fiammanerapatrick3215 4 роки тому +11

      We technically could have had internet back in the 1700's.

    • @jacktaliasteinberg9681
      @jacktaliasteinberg9681 3 роки тому +1

      @RYLE SALUNGA it seems everyone had a seizure

    • @dolliegray666
      @dolliegray666 3 роки тому +3

      @RYLE SALUNGA
      *jamesmadysun joined*
      James: Yes I won the election.
      *georgeclinton comes back*
      George:I'm back
      A few yrs later
      *Clinton dies*
      Time skip
      *jamzmonrow joined le game*
      James: Yey I won the election twice now in leaving
      *johnadamsthesecond joined*
      Quincy: I WON, DAD I WOOOOOOOON
      *Johnadams58 joins*
      John: WHAT THE 🤬
      Quincy: I WON
      John: WHAT
      Quincy: THE ELECTION
      *tomjeff joins*
      John and Thomas: *WHAT THE HECK*
      *John and Thomas dies*
      Quincy: I'm sad now
      *androojaksun joins*
      Andrew: I won
      Quincy: HOW THE 🤬 DID U WIN
      Andrew: *I LEARNED TO PLAY POLITICS B🤬* *kills dickinson*
      *vanmadeoutofurine joins*
      Buren: I WON
      Andrew: GOOD JOB MAN
      *William joins and dies*
      *Tyler joins*
      Tyler: :/
      *Poke joins*
      Polk: yay, Ummm guys Mexico sus *puts troops at the border*
      Mexico:is that a act of war? I think that's a act of war, were going to war.
      Polk: Told you they were kinda sus
      *Poke dies 3 months when he leaves office and ZakereeTaylr joins*
      Taylor: yay I wo- *dies*
      *FILLSOMEMORE joins*
      Fillmore: :/
      *PIERCEMYEARSMAN JOINS*
      Pierce: IM HANDSOME B🤬
      Everyone:👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
      *jamesthebachelor joins*
      James: I'm a bachelor
      Everyone:👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
      *abe joins*
      Abe: NO MORE SLAVERY
      everyone:👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
      Confederacy: Fak u
      *booth kills abe*
      Johnson joins: bye
      *grantmeawish joins*
      NO SLAVERY,FAIR FOR BLACKS
      Everyone:👍👍👍👎👎👎👍👍👍👎👎👎
      *mybeardismadeofhay joins*
      Hayes: BEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
      *garfieldthecatwithabeard joins*
      Garfield: *assassinated*
      Arthur: hi
      Clevelandthehumancity joins*
      Cleveland: hi
      *harrison2 joins*
      Harrison: im William's grandson
      Cleveland: hi
      *mckindly joins*
      McKinley: DEFEAT SPAIN
      *mckinley assassinated*
      *Teddythehumanbear joins*
      Teddy: I'm a good president
      *Tafthefatty joins*
      Taft: I'm fat
      *woodrowwilson joins*
      Wilson BEING IN WWI THO, I DONT THINK SO BITCH
      1917: *joins*
      *Gamalielhardenedpenis joins*
      Harding hi, bye
      *dies*
      *StayCoolWithCoolidge joins*
      Coolidge: hi *does a rlly great job*
      *hooverboard joins*
      Hoover: SH 🤬 THE GREAT DEPRESSION
      *teddyscousinfrankin joins*
      Franklin: WWII, I DONT THINK S- *BOMBED AND GOES IN WAR* *serves 4 terms*
      *FDR dies*
      *imatruman joins*
      Truman: *does rlly good*
      *generaleisenhower joins*
      Eisenhower: I'm a ww2 General, *GENERAL OF THE ARMY*
      *bigmacarthur joins*
      MacArthur: gg man
      *Fitzgeraldkennedy joins*
      Kennedy: Hi
      *assassination*
      *tedandboobykennedy joins*
      Ted and bobby: *i cri, sad baconhair noises*
      *Bainzjonzun joins*
      Baines: SAD BUT IM PRESIDENT
      *imnotacrook joins*
      Nixon:
      *WATERGATE*
      *resigns*
      *fordthehumancar joins*
      Ford: wait I wasnt elected, wow
      *cartire joins*
      Carter: GIVE ME A BREAK I SAW TOO MUCH
      *Cartier leaves*
      *Cartier Rejoins*
      *Reaganomics joins*
      Reagan: HOLLYWOOD NOTICE ME SENPAI *goes to HOLLYWOOD HEAVEN, hallelujah intensifies*
      *hw joins*
      H.W. Bush: I'm president yey
      *Clinton joins*
      Clinton: OH BOY IM PRESIDENT AND ITS SEX RELATIOOOOOOONS *Gets impeached* WHO F🤬 SUED ME
      *W. Joins*
      W. Bush: DAD BROTHER LOOK IM PRESIDENT
      Jeb and H.W. Bush: gg
      *obamathelama joins*
      Obama: I'm the first black president
      *donaldtrumpet joins*
      trump: FUCK COVID
      *Bidenthetrident joins*
      Biden: OBAMA IM PRESIDENT
      Obama:gg biden
      Everyone:Bye
      *everyone except W Bush,Trump,Biden,Obama,Clinton,and Carter dies and leaves*
      W: I cri my dad di

  • @georgewashington673
    @georgewashington673 5 років тому +77

    John Breckinridge was the great-grandfather of "Bunny" Breckinridge, a gay drag queen who played the ruler of the aliens in Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space".
    Bill Murray portrayed him in the 1994 film "Ed Wood".

  • @bensonfang1868
    @bensonfang1868 3 роки тому +8

    Honestly if southerners had anyone to blame it was James Buchanan being unpopular. That led to Douglas and Breckinridge splitting votes pretty evenly.

  • @FroxyProxy
    @FroxyProxy 3 роки тому +32

    It's crazy to think about that if the other 3 republican candidates got nominated instead of Lincoln, or if the other 3 candidates got elected president, America could be 2 countries still today.

    • @Spongebrain97
      @Spongebrain97 3 роки тому +17

      As long as a Republican won in 1860 Im sure the Union still would've won. Seward in particular was close to Lincoln and was his secretary of state and a good man

  • @nickmariaca1647
    @nickmariaca1647 3 роки тому +22

    Is anyone else really diggin this music or is it just me?

    • @-graphics1-379
      @-graphics1-379 3 роки тому +3

      1860 rock lol

    • @Spongebrain97
      @Spongebrain97 3 роки тому +5

      The Union version of the song is better. In the same tune it goes like
      "We'll all go down to Dixie away, away
      Each Dixie boi must understand that he must mind his uncle".

  • @mykellayne
    @mykellayne Рік тому +5

    Lincoln is by far one of the best presidents that ever walked on this earth.

  • @corbetthowell3392
    @corbetthowell3392 4 роки тому +20

    Its crazy seeing California having only 4 votes

    • @ihatestarsbucks6680
      @ihatestarsbucks6680 3 роки тому

      Why

    • @Danieldoomer
      @Danieldoomer 2 роки тому +3

      @@ihatestarsbucks6680 because it’s known to have a lot of electrical votes now it has 55

  • @SanGrampsMapping
    @SanGrampsMapping 3 роки тому +8

    It feels awkward hearing Dixie while he´s talking about Lincoln

  • @Whiteman2.0
    @Whiteman2.0 Місяць тому +4

    0:15 Wow! That’s the day before my birthday!

    • @realjehu
      @realjehu 2 дні тому

      bro was born on november 7 1860?

  • @c.w.simpsonproductions1230
    @c.w.simpsonproductions1230 Рік тому +10

    Joseph Lane is one of my distant ancestors on my father’s side. Quite an interesting character. On his last day in the Senate, he had a nasty exchange with Andrew Johnson that gave him a notorious reputation after.
    Lane accused Johnson of having "sold his birthright" as a Southerner. Johnson responded by suggesting that Lane was a hypocrite for so accusing Johnson when Lane so staunchly supported a movement of active treason against the United States.

  • @jamesmelt
    @jamesmelt 9 років тому +85

    I knew a lot of the facts, but I still find this video interesting and entertaining. The background music and accompanying pictures were nice.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  9 років тому +22

      +James Melton Well thanks so much, James! I lean toward edutainment to make this stuff more accessible to the masses, but at the same time you may have noticed that nearly all of the photographs and even the background music are from around 1860 to help capture the time more accurately.

    • @jamesmelt
      @jamesmelt 9 років тому +7

      +Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel I see the accuracy in your lecture. I'm an aspiring teacher. I plan on getting my degree in History, hopefully working towards a doctorate. I try to keep my opinion out of the Civil War when teaching it, because of where in the US I'm from. It's one of my three favorite eras to study.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  9 років тому +6

      James Melton I definitely hear you on keeping opinions out of it. I should do that more! I actually am not teaching the Civil War this year and I miss it. Best of luck with the rest of your schooling.

    • @Karmy.
      @Karmy. 4 роки тому

      Same and I've been out of school for a couple years now

  • @benjaminteixeira4709
    @benjaminteixeira4709 4 роки тому +5

    NGL of the older presidential election videos this one has the best song

  • @MRB16th
    @MRB16th 4 роки тому +7

    There ended up being three Democratic conventions that year: one adjourned, one without the South, and the Southern Democrats held their own.
    In fact, the official Democrat convention had ended with no vice-presidential candidate being nominated - Stephen Douglas (who needed 59 ballots over two conventions!) offered the nomination to Herschel Johnson after the convention, and Johnson accepted.

  • @hakeemfullerton8645
    @hakeemfullerton8645 3 роки тому +6

    John Breckenridge looks like Matthew Perry from F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

  • @Mr_John_Adams
    @Mr_John_Adams Рік тому +4

    5:52 my heart dropped, I thought there was a giant crack on my computer screen

  • @TK-oj2ml
    @TK-oj2ml Рік тому +13

    Funny that South Carolina, the first state to secede, was the only state at that time to have electors chosen by the state legislature instead of a popular vote like other states
    Also, Buchanan pledged to serve only one term in his inaugural address, so that's why he "wasn't brought up as a nominee" for this election

  • @jackwing6597
    @jackwing6597 4 роки тому +5

    happy birthday Mr. Beat

  • @mrbuck5059
    @mrbuck5059 4 роки тому +33

    5:46 I thought my screen was cracked.

    • @colinbagel860
      @colinbagel860 3 роки тому +1

      Lol same

    • @nicoof754
      @nicoof754 3 роки тому +1

      I Was on my TV in front my TV screen with class cracked

  • @abrahamlincoln937
    @abrahamlincoln937 3 роки тому +38

    I’m glad that I won this election and became the greatest president in American history.

  • @Ryan-lr1gy
    @Ryan-lr1gy 3 роки тому +10

    Lincoln casually won even though he wasn’t on the ballot for 10 states.

  • @MeesterTweester
    @MeesterTweester 4 роки тому +10

    It's good to be in D.C. Hooray! Hooray!

  • @yodathe900yearolddyslectic8
    @yodathe900yearolddyslectic8 4 роки тому +14

    DNC: we can’t renominate Pierce he was the worst president, let’s try Buchanan
    Buchanan: Good day gentlemen I am here to change the future.

  • @rockstarsharma53
    @rockstarsharma53 7 років тому +24

    Happy birthday Mr. Beat

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  7 років тому +3

      Thanks so much! :D

  • @crowtservo
    @crowtservo 3 роки тому +4

    Actually James Buchanan stated in his inaugural address he wouldn’t run for a second term.

  • @ianlyons7689
    @ianlyons7689 2 роки тому +3

    We have our first Republican president in the United States. With the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina drops out of the Union, followed by Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, and Georgia.

    • @dcpatriots8757
      @dcpatriots8757 Рік тому +1

      Then during the Civil War Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, & Virginia were the last states to secede

  • @Wasabialt
    @Wasabialt Рік тому +3

    Music name: 1859 I Wish I Was in Dixie, Dixie's Land Anthem of the Confederate States of America Southern United States.

  • @dannycole6956
    @dannycole6956 4 роки тому +4

    I love it, when Abraham Lincoln did on Election in 1860.

  • @theodoreroosevelt8537
    @theodoreroosevelt8537 5 років тому +10

    Douglas was a good man

  • @SarahElisabethJoyal
    @SarahElisabethJoyal 3 роки тому +12

    "Who knew that a presidential election could directly lead to war?"
    Well, file that one under sentences that hit differently after the last election

  • @kevindurant9953
    @kevindurant9953 3 роки тому +8

    7:03 I wonder how Lincoln felt

    • @dekumidoriya7781
      @dekumidoriya7781 3 роки тому +2

      Well I'm pretty sure he said " Oh wow thanks, as if you didn't help Mr.beat".
      Lol lmao
      Well I'm so happy that the Union won the civil war.

  • @ashleighstratmann7783
    @ashleighstratmann7783 2 роки тому +1

    Although Douglas was a senator in Illinois, as someone who grew up in IL before moving to Kentucky, I can tell you the further south of IL you go, the more you see familiarities to the south. Even my brother-in-law who lived in Kentucky for a long time said after visiting my grandparents in southern IL that southern IL wasn't much different than the south.

    • @brianyu7333
      @brianyu7333 2 роки тому +5

      The south/north divide of Illinois was a major factor during the Senate election between Douglas and Lincoln as well, Douglas received most of his support from the pro-slavery southern region, which they named Egypt after the town of Cairo, Illinois.

    • @ashleighstratmann7783
      @ashleighstratmann7783 2 роки тому +1

      @@brianyu7333 I been to both Northern and Southern IL as I had family on my biological mom's side that lived in the Chicago area of Northern IL we use to visit.

  • @jamesmckeown8610
    @jamesmckeown8610 17 днів тому

    Happy Birthday Mr. Beat!

  • @jorenbosmans8065
    @jorenbosmans8065 Рік тому +1

    I love how the rubric went against you gut feeling for the banking one. It happens to me a lot when grading

  • @therealtornadosam
    @therealtornadosam 3 роки тому +1

    James Buchanan was not mentioned because he said he would only serve one term.

  • @AntonMcAteer
    @AntonMcAteer 3 місяці тому +1

    Something important you could've emphasise more is that there were, for all intents and purposes, two elections in this election: the northern election (lincoln v. douglas) and the southern election (bell v. breckinridge). Northern candidates barely got any votes in the South and vice versa.

  • @ashtoncollins868
    @ashtoncollins868 2 роки тому

    Election Rundown: (whoo boi)
    Took place on: Nov. 6 1860
    Members of the collage: 303
    Elec. votes needed to win: 152
    Turnout: 81.2% (up 2.3% from 1856)
    Candidates: Republican Party: Former Rep. for Illinois’s 7th Abraham Lincoln from Illinois (also my cousin). Running Mate: Incumbent Senator Hannibal Hamlin from Maine. Northern Dem. Party: Incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas from Illinois. Running Mate: Former Governor of Georgia Herschel V. Johnson from *Georgia*
    Southern Dem. Party: Incumbent VP John C. Breckinridge from Kentucky. Running Mate: Incumbent Senator Joseph Lane from Oregon.
    Constitutional Union Party: Former Senator John Bell from Tennessee. Running Mate: Former Senator Edward Everett from Massachusetts.
    Elec. Votes: Lincoln/Hamlin: 180. Breckinridge/Lane: 72. Bell/Everett: 39. Douglas/Johnson: 12.
    Popular Vote: Lincoln/Hamlin: 1,865,908/39.82%. Douglas/Johnson: 1,380,202/29.46%. Breckinridge/Lane: 848,019/18.1%. Bell/Everett: 590,901/12.61%.
    States Carried: Lincoln/Hamlin: 18. Breckinridge/Lane: 11. Bell/Everett: 3. Douglas/Johnson: 1.
    Total Votes: 4,685,561.
    Fact for the election: First time a Republican was elected

  • @ZJP
    @ZJP 7 років тому +9

    Just found your channel! I'm a Nov. 6 birthday, too! And an avid social studies kind of guy. Glad I found your stuff, Mr. Beat!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  7 років тому +1

      Awesome! Glad you like it, and people who have birthdays on November 6 are pretty amazing.

  • @billymurray705
    @billymurray705 3 роки тому +1

    The guy singing in the background is billy murray, the most influential singer of the first fifth of the 20th century

  • @edsova5089
    @edsova5089 3 роки тому +8

    1860, the only election that led to civil war
    2020: hold my beer

  • @noco7243
    @noco7243 7 років тому +7

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

  • @jacobwilson8151
    @jacobwilson8151 8 років тому +26

    You sound exactly like Adam Scott/Ben Wyatt from Parks and Rec.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 років тому +16

      Maybe I actually am Adam Scott.

  • @trevorbarnhill1481
    @trevorbarnhill1481 3 роки тому

    I love your videos. I am a history buff, especially Presidential history. And the Election of 1860 is one of my favorite Presidential Elections.

  • @earlpaulson7164
    @earlpaulson7164 Рік тому +1

    Buchanan said in his Inaugural address in 1857 that he would not run for reelection in 1860 (because of his age). You made it sound like the Party turned on him, whereas he retired from nearly 50 years of public service and supported his former VP, Breckinridge in the election of 1860.

    • @neutral7786
      @neutral7786 Рік тому

      James buchanan did well not to seek a second term, because James buchanan was a disastrous President(Even Donald trump and Joe biden look spectacular compared to him)he was an extremely inept President, the people were going to send him to hell in the next Elections, his defeat in 1860 was assured.

    • @TK-oj2ml
      @TK-oj2ml Рік тому +1

      @@neutral7786 And your point is??
      It's not like that he tried to get renominated but quitted halfway through because of his "disastrous" first term or something, he clearly said in his very first speech as president that he wouldn't seek another term, and he honored that pledge

  • @cameronuggetmc7080
    @cameronuggetmc7080 3 роки тому +3

    This was a great video!

  • @gatophantasma
    @gatophantasma 4 роки тому +3

    Well joaquin phoenix can play Breckenridge in the movie.

  • @jordansweet8054
    @jordansweet8054 8 місяців тому

    Douglas immediately went on a speaking tour and encouraged the preservation of the union after losing the election, throwing his weight behind Lincoln. Class act and reading the room masterwork.

  • @deleted-something
    @deleted-something Рік тому +2

    the election of all time

  • @geraldfordman7474
    @geraldfordman7474 3 роки тому +1

    Wow! What an eye opener! Maybe I was sleeping in U.S. History, but I don't think I EVER READ about this in either my U.S. HISTORY textbooks or did I EVER HEAR it being discussed. I don't think I slept through it all , however, because I was a B student.

  • @externalboss9404
    @externalboss9404 Рік тому +1

    Sadly, Steven Douglas died one year later.

  • @BlendedMozart
    @BlendedMozart 16 днів тому +1

    0:57 they couldn’t Imagine Dragons either

  • @jacksonb.8267
    @jacksonb.8267 4 роки тому +1

    Happy birthday mr beat

  • @scottaznavourian3720
    @scottaznavourian3720 Рік тому +2

    Well that one state he recoeved 1.1 percent of the vote evenfually became west virginia

  • @TheChosennn
    @TheChosennn Місяць тому +1

    This election and the 2024 election are/were the two most important elections in American history

    • @Metallimad06
      @Metallimad06 19 днів тому +1

      1860, 1992, 2000, 2024. Would you agree?

    • @TheChosennn
      @TheChosennn 18 днів тому

      @ I feel like 1860, 1980, and 2024 are the three most important elections in American history. That’s just my opinion tho

  • @davidswift7776
    @davidswift7776 4 роки тому +2

    Good job Mr Beat, #16 was truly #1... 16 later #32 was truly #2!
    U r insightful and pragmatic 👌
    Thanks for the post !

  • @michaelandre2653
    @michaelandre2653 4 роки тому +2

    I love you Mr Beat but the soundtrack of this video is overwhelming and makes the video difficult to follow.

  • @emilycupcakegirl367
    @emilycupcakegirl367 3 роки тому +1

    I thought the thumbnail said John Tyler and I was so confused 💀

  • @WallaceBreenFromKentucky
    @WallaceBreenFromKentucky 3 роки тому +1

    Today its exactly 5 years after this video was released

  • @GamerKid64
    @GamerKid64 4 роки тому +6

    Am I The Only One Who Heard The Confederate National Anthem In The Background???

    • @weldin
      @weldin 3 роки тому

      Or more accurately “Dixie”.

  • @blacklisted351
    @blacklisted351 4 роки тому +2

    A rising star from Illinois?
    *You don't say?*

  • @Gabrielm624
    @Gabrielm624 6 років тому +4

    That 81% turnout tho... holy fuck

  • @kingmiura8138
    @kingmiura8138 3 роки тому +2

    Imagine if Ol' Abe had been shot in 1859....we would have avoided the worst disaster in history. Deo Vindice.

    • @sydhenderson6753
      @sydhenderson6753 9 місяців тому +1

      No, Seward would most likely have won and we'd still have the Civil War.

  • @thepopulistgamer4879
    @thepopulistgamer4879 4 роки тому +3

    What was the song in the background for this video its awesome

    • @bdbailey
      @bdbailey 4 роки тому +3

      Bro that's the confederate anthem

    • @ckliffames1
      @ckliffames1 3 роки тому +2

      @@redisgreatYT Yep unofficial anthem but officially racist!

    • @dekumidoriya7781
      @dekumidoriya7781 3 роки тому +2

      @@ckliffames1 omg!! Yes thank you so much I agree with you 100%
      I believe that the Union Dixie song is so much better it's a gosh darn Patriotic song and people should play it more often. 😁😎

  • @K.C.-Games
    @K.C.-Games 6 років тому +1

    Who would you vote for? Lincoln or Douglas and for Southerners John Bell or John C Breckenridge. I would vote for Lincoln.

    • @joshkusiak7613
      @joshkusiak7613 5 років тому +1

      I vote for western succession to have a three way civil war.

    • @jonaboktr5269
      @jonaboktr5269 4 роки тому

      Kyle & Chung me too
      (Southern Canadian/Northern American)

  • @noahsrebels
    @noahsrebels Рік тому +1

    Today i learned i share a birthday with Mr Beat

  • @GorillaFan_32
    @GorillaFan_32 2 роки тому

    I just realized in the left of every single thumbnail of the election videos, there’s every single winner (except for the ones with Henry Clay).

  • @lightingbolt8148
    @lightingbolt8148 Рік тому +1

    Imagine the public voting over 80% now.

    • @adamdaniel8909
      @adamdaniel8909 9 місяців тому

      I mean there's some countries that are over 85 percent turnout...

  • @walterb.3592
    @walterb.3592 3 роки тому +2

    Can you tell me what the name of that recording of dixi is? (Who sang it?)

  • @Lifeskeyishappiness
    @Lifeskeyishappiness 4 роки тому +4

    Hey you're a Scorpio like me, respect

  • @alexschmidt5612
    @alexschmidt5612 Рік тому

    Is he saying removing a major candidate from the ballot was a catalyst for conflict. Hope that never happens again

  • @rukminikrishna1938
    @rukminikrishna1938 2 роки тому

    2:06 Buchanan didn’t run because he didn’t want to run against Lincoln

  • @alessiodelcastillo1613
    @alessiodelcastillo1613 4 роки тому +2

    If Lincoln were running today on a pro-war platform we defo wouldn't vote for him

  • @kathleenhaggard8138
    @kathleenhaggard8138 6 місяців тому

    Wish there wasn’t music playing in background.

  • @beegchungus3721
    @beegchungus3721 5 років тому +3

    When you say 81% of the population do u mean eligible population cause woman couldn’t obvi nor slaves so that’s a huge percentage there over 50%

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  5 років тому +4

      of the eligible population

  • @gonymaha7654
    @gonymaha7654 4 місяці тому

    Wow 🤩…. Great work

  • @shaunosmorrison8385
    @shaunosmorrison8385 11 місяців тому +1

    William Seward probably would've been a fairly decent president

    • @matthewhedrichjr.5445
      @matthewhedrichjr.5445 5 місяців тому +1

      But he became Secretary of State anyway. Well at least he could be better than Pierce and Buchanan have

  • @schusterlehrling
    @schusterlehrling 7 місяців тому

    It's not 81,2 percent of the population that voted, as most of the population including women and slaves had no vote at all.

  • @sukaruzuu
    @sukaruzuu 3 роки тому +1

    anyone else watching at school? no just me? okay then........

  • @rahmadgerpol
    @rahmadgerpol Рік тому

    1:00 William Barksdale in Battle of Gettysburg lead a brigade for CSA Army. And he died

  • @benplayzgames4368
    @benplayzgames4368 7 місяців тому

    I wonder what would’ve happened if Stephen Douglas won?