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Kentucky the birthplace of both Lincoln and Davis was evenly divided between North and South. Kentuckians took pride in their traditional role as mediator between North and South.

Abraham Lincoln the railsplitter became the symbol of frontier, farm, opportunity, hard work, rags to riches, and other components of the American dream.

The North started later than the South to raise an army. The Union had more than 3.5x as many white men of military age as the Confederacy.

In Kentucky a mob drove 39 people associated with an antislavery church and school at Brea out of the state.

Seldom in history has a counterrevolution so quickly provoked the very revolution it sought to pre-empt.

Competing with free Blacks at the bottom of the social order, Irish Americans were intensely anti-Negro and frequently rioted against Black people in northern cities.

The Dred Scott case was an 11 year saga that started as a simple freedom suit and escalated into the most notorious cause celebre in American constitutional history.

Pope Pius condemned socialism, public education, infidelity and atheism.

In 1856 Kansas has 2 territorial governments: the official one at Lecompton and the unofficial one at Topeka representing a majority of actual residents.

By 1860 the country contained nearly 32 million people, 4 million of them slaves.