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| North America:The eighth Democratic national convention meets in Charleston, South Carolina to nominate a presidential candidate but deadlocks on a nominee and fights over wording on the slavery policy. The convention reconvenes in Baltimore to nominate Stephen Douglas.
The second Republican national convention meets in Chicago to nominate Abraham Lincoln and devote most of the platform to the slavery question. Lincoln wins the election with 40 percent of the popular vote and 180 electorial college votes. John C. Breckinridge gets 72 electorial votes and 18 percent while Douglas gets 12 electorial votes and 30 percent. In December South Carolina votes to approve an Ordinance of Secession in protest of the Lincoln election. Elizabeth Cady Stanton urges female suffrage in a speech to the New York legislature. Fort Defiance in the New Mexico territory is attacked by navajo warriors who nearly take the fort. U. S. exports total $334 million, of which $192 million is from cotton. Wheat and corn crops have doubled in the last twenty years, as has the U. S. population. John D. Rockefeller, 20, is a partner in a Cleveland firm. Over a thousand steamboats on the Mississippi River, almost 6,000 miles of rail.Winchester repeating rifle in production. 372 daily newspapers in the United States, dime novels born, fiction by Nathanial Hawthorne; Stephen Foster songs are popular.. Oneida Community commune thrives. The Seventh Day Adventist Church. Louisiana State University and Louisiana A and M is founded.Pony Express rides from St. Joseph Mo. to Sacrramento, Ca. in ten days. King ranch developing in Texas. |
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| Europe: Napoleon gives more power to the French Parliament after loosing support in last year's wars. A treaty with Britain opens up more trade between the two countries and further weakens Napoleon III. British use breech-loading artillery in China. Pasteurization of milk. An early internal combustion engine developed in Belgium.Fiction by George Eliot, Ivan Turgenev; poetry by Tennyson; painting my Manet; music by Johannes Brahms; British Open golf. World championship boxing in England. Linoleum developed from linseed oil. | |||||||||||
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January 1860
After taking the oath of office as governor Thomas Overton Moore convenes a special session of the legislature to discuss slavery and the Democratic party convention in Charleston, South Carolina. During his term the capital is moved from occupied New Orleans to Opelousas, then Shreveport. His plantation, Mooreland, near Alexandria is burned in the Spring of 1864 by Union Forces retreating from the unsuccessful Red River Campaign. |
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December 1860
When Lincoln wins the presidential election Governor Moore calls a convention of secession and seizes all federal military installations in Louisiana. |
| Louisiana State University has its beginnings as the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy in Pineville with William Tecumseh Sherman as its first president. It will move to Baton Rouge in 1869. | The Greek Revival house at 1805 Coliseum St. will serve as a residence for two mayors of the city: Walter C. Flower and deLesseps S. Morrison. | The Dominican Sisters arrive in New Orleans and open a girls school near Lee Circle. They buy a private school in 1864 . They build the main building at 7214 St. Charles Ave. in 1882 in an Italianate style. | Trinity Episcopal Church in Cheneyville built
of handmade brick in 1860 and designed in Gothic Revival with separate
gallery for slaves. Consecrated by Bishop Leonidas
Polk in 1861. The original congregation included several prominent
planters of the surrounding area near Cheneyville in Rapides
Parish. Built this year, the Claiborne Parish Court House in the northern border of the state is a point of departure for Confederate troops during the War Between the States. It is one of the finest examples of Southern expression of Greek architectural style. |
Nottoway Plantation house is finished in White Castle, La. Architect Henry Howard designs it for wealthy planter John Hampden Randolph who names it after the Nottoway River in Virginia. It is the largest plantation home in the South with sixty-four rooms and 53,000 square feet. The house was restored by Arlin Dease and opened to the public in 1981.
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