United States presidential elections in California War. United States presidential elections in California Following is a table of United States presidential elections in California, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1850, California has participated in every U.S. presidential election. Winners of the state are in bold. The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country. The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery, spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American
History of women in the United States selling 10,000 copies in the United States in its first week; 300,000 in the first year; and in Great Britain, 1.5 million copies in one year. Following publication of the book, Harriet Beecher Stowe became a celebrity, speaking against slavery both in America and Europe. She wrote "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1853, extensively documenting the realities on which the book was based, to refute critics who tried to argue that it was inauthentic; and published a second anti-slavery novel, "Dred", in 1856. Later, when she visited President Abraham Lincoln, the family's oral tradition states that he greeted