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U.S. territorial extent in 1860. April 3, 1860 – Pony Express begins. November 6 – 1860 United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln elected president and Hannibal Hamlin vice president with only 39% of the vote in a four-man race. December 18 – Crittenden Compromise fails. December 20 – President Buchanan fires his cabinet.
Augustana College is founded in Chicago, Illinois, United States by Swedish immigrants. The college moves to Paxton, Illinois, in 1862, and to its eventual home in Rock Island, Illinois, in 1875. Sedalia, Missouri is incorporated. The American South has c. 4 million slaves. 1860–1900 – 14 million immigrants come to the United States.
The United States expropriated from Panama additional areas around the soon-to-be-built Madden Dam and annexed them to the Panama Canal Zone. [365] [373] Caribbean Sea: May 3, 1932 The United States adjusted the border at Punta Paitilla in the Canal Zone, returning a small amount of land to Panama. This was the site for a planned new American ...
Stacker compiled data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information to rank the contiguous 48 states from coldest to warmest.
History of the United States Constitution; History of the United States government. Presidents of the United States. George Washington: 1789–1797; John Adams: 1797–1801; Thomas Jefferson: 1801–1809; James Madison: 1809–1817; James Monroe: 1817–1825; John Quincy Adams: 1825–1829; Andrew Jackson: 1829–1837; Martin Van Buren: 1837–1841
In United States history, four periods of widespread Constitutional criticism have been characterized by the idea that specific political powers belong to state governments and not to the federal government—a doctrine commonly known as states' rights. At each stage, states' rights advocates failed to develop a preponderance in public opinion ...
Coldest: Decatur, Alabama. The northern part of the state holds the city with the lowest average temperature: Decatur. It gets down to an average of only 50 degrees during the year.
The warmest city in Vermont is Bennington in the southwest corner of the state. The city, surrounded almost entirely by the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests, has an average annual ...