How many electoral votes were Texas, Virginia & Mississippi alloted in 1868 US presidential election?
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I believe that you are thinking of Texas, Mississippi, and Virginia which were not allowed to vote because they had not yet be readmitted to the Union.
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The number of electoral college voters for each state is the sum of the number of Representatives and Senators... each state has two Senators, but the number of Representatives depends upon the population of the state.\n\nThere are 435 Representatives and 100 Senators, a total of 535 Electoral Votes right there.  Washington DC also has 3 representatives (but no Senators), so there are a total of 538 electors. \n\nA candidate needs 270 electoral votes to be elected President (269 would be half of 538, so you need one more than half of 538).\n\nAs a rule, which ever candidate gets the most votes from each state gets all of the electoral votes from that state .\n\nSo it's not enough to simply get the majority of the popular vote, you have to get the marjoirty of the popular vote in enough statest to add up to 270 electoral votes.\n\nIf no candidate received 270 electoral votes, then the election would be decided by a vote of the 435 members of the House of Representatives.\n\nThe electoral college voters actually meet (in their own individual states) to vote on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December...THAT is when the President is officially "elected".
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abolition\n\nslavery was abolished in america, formally, in 1863 with lincoln's emancipation proclamation.\n\nslaves were not actually freed, however, until the north beat the south in the civil war.  even after that, texas still had many slaves until june of 1865 - the day they were freed is celebrated as "juneteenth."
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It's never been done.  \nUlysses S. Grant won the 1872 election against his main opponent Horace Greeley with 286 electoral college votes.  Greeley recieved 3, but they were never counted.  There were, however, four other candidates.  Thomas Hendricks recieved 42 votes, B. Gratz Brown took 18, Charles Jenkins won 2 and David Davis recieved 1 electoral vote.   \n\nit's almost happened a few times; \nIn 1820 Monroe beat John Adams 231-1 \nIn 1936 FDR beat Alfred Landon 523-8\nAnd Reagan beat Walter Mondale in 1984 525-13
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George W. Bush Republican(a) Texas 62,040,610 50.7% 286 \nJohn F. Kerry Democratic(b) Massachusetts 59,028,111 48.3% \nRalph Nader Independent, Reform Connecticut 463,653 0.4% \nMichael Badnarik Libertarian Texas 397,265 0.3% \nMichael Peroutka Constitution Maryland 144,498 0.1% \nDavid Cobb Green California 119,859 0.1% \n\nOther 99,336 0.1% \nTotal 122,293,332
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In 1800, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied with 73 votes each.  While the Republican Party had intended Jefferson to be the Presidential nominee and Burr to be the VP, the laws in place at the time did not differentiate between Presidential and Vice-Presidential votes, thus resulting in the tie.  Thus, the election was sent to the House of Representatives, who spent a week balloting (mostly because the Federalists voted for Burr as President, primarily to spite Jefferson).\n\nIn 1824, no candidate received a majority of the electoral votes so the House had to choose between top 3 vote getters - Andrew Jackson (99 electoral votes), John Quincy Adams (84) and William Harris Crawford (41).  Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House received 37 votes and finished 4th.  After his elimination, Clay threw his support to Adams, who was elected on the first ballot.\n\nAlso to consider: in 1876, the winner of the election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden was not officially decided officially by the House, but the electoral vote hinged on the acceptance by a Congressionally appointed committee of disputed ballots cast for Hayes in several states (all of Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina's electors, plus one in Oregon).
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The battle of Vicksburg led by Ulysses S. Grant. a victory when the Union was desperate for success. It gave the Union control of the Mississippi.
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No and no.\n\nFor several decades, most African Americans have been Democrats, and tend to vote democratic. There are Republican African Americans, but they are a minority within their ethnicity.\n\nUntil the 60's or so, most white southerners were Democrat (AKA "Dixiecrats") and black southerners were Republican -- when they were allowed to register and vote at all. This was in reaction to Lincoln's having been a Republican. \n\nSince elected Democrats, and the Democratic party tended to favor civil rights and racial equality, southern Blacks switched parties, and segregationists switched to Republian (over the next several decades).\n\nBy no means are all Caucasions Republicans. Not even close.\n\nMembers of unions long tended to be Democrats, and the split was more along economic class lines.\n\nNow the biggest split seems to be that of rural vs. urban -- with city dwellers voting Democrat, and those in sparsely-populated areas voting Republican.\n\nBut these are general trends; there have always been exceptions.\n\nRemember, African Americans are only about 12% of the US population -- if the two parties represented those two races, Democrats would be a minor party.
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Amendment 21 [Repeal of Prohibition (1933)]\nAmendment 22 [Two Term Limit on President (1951)]\nAmendment 23 [Presidential Vote in D.C. (1961)]\nAmendment 24 [No Poll Tax (1964)]\nAmendment 25 [Presidential Succession (1967)]\nAmendment 26 [Right to Vote at Age 18 (1971)]\nAmendment 27 [Compensation of Members of Congress (1992)]
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The 14th amendment does NOT let blacks vote, that was the 15th. It states that all people born in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the State they live in. Most importantly, it further says that states cannot pass laws that infringe upon a person's civil rights or deprive someone of life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness without due process (basically, without a trial), or deny someone the equal protection of the laws, a clause that was key in overturning "separate but equal" facilities.\n\nThere are also other sections related to issues following the Civil War, including one that says that the number of representatives given to each state shall be determined using the number of people in the state, as opposed to counting slaves as 3/5 of a person as before. Further, it provides that if a state forbids to right to vote to any male over 21 in the state for anything other than rebellion or another crime, their number of representatives shall be lowered according to the number of people disenfranchised.
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270 electoral votes are needed.  Please check out the link below...
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Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837.
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"Electoral College"\nhttp://www.newsaic.com/04electoralcollege.html\n\n"... elections in which the candidate who won the electoral college did not receive a majority of the popular votes cast ..."\n\n- 1844: Polk (49.6 percent).\n- 1848: Taylor (47.3 percent).\n- 1856: Buchanan (45.6 percent).\n- 1860: Lincoln (39.8 percent).\n[1876: Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes.]\n- 1880: Garfield (48.3 percent).\n- 1884: Cleveland (48.5 percent).\n[1888: Benjamin Harrison had most electoral votes but fewer popular votes.]\n- 1892: Cleveland (46.0 percent).\n- 1912: Wilson (41.9 percent).\n- 1916: Wilson (49.3 percent).\n- 1948: Truman (49.6 percent).\n- 1960: Kennedy (49.5 percent).\n- 1968: Nixon (43.4 percent).\n- 1992: Clinton (43.0 percent).\n- 1996: Clinton (49.2 percent).\n[2000: George W. Bush beats Al Gore. Bush has 47.9 percent of popular vote, Gore had 48.4 percent.]
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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in July 1868, guaranteed basic civil rights to all citizens; it was intended to persuade Southern states to grant suffrage to blacks by threatening a reduction of their congressional representation. To further the cause of black suffrage, the Radical Republican Congress, which had swept away the Southern regimes organized under presidential Reconstruction, required ex-Confederate states to adopt new state constitutions allowing black suffrage before senators and representatives from those states would be readmitted to Congress. The United States was thus faced with a situation in which all the ex-Confederate states granted blacks the right to vote, while 16 of the loyal Union states still denied black suffrage.\n\nTo remedy the inequity and to help shore up the Southern Radical Republican Reconstruction regimes, a 15th Amendment to the Constitution was proposed in February 1869. It stated simply that "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." There was much debate in Congress about what should be included in the Amendment. Henry Adams remarked that the 15th Amendment was "more remarkable for what it does not than for what it does contain."\n\nIt did not guarantee blacks the right to hold office, which many congressmen felt should be included. It did not offer a blanket guarantee of the right to vote because many Radical Republicans feared that would void the disenfranchisement of ex-Confederates. Many states, North and South, required payment of poll taxes, property ownership, or literacy as a condition of voting. The 15th Amendment did not address any of those stipulations. Feminists, especially, fought against the amendment because women were not included in the guarantee of suffrage.
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In 1853 it was Andrew Johnson. This year? All I know is/was Phil Bredesen was highly favored. According to Yahoo news:\n\nQUOTE:\nAmong the 36 states electing governors, Democrats were headed to re-election wins in Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Wyoming, New Mexico, Kansas, Wisconsin, Maine, Arizona, Oregon, and Tennessee and held onto to an open Democratic seat in Iowa.\nEND QUOTE\n\nUPDATED!!!!!!\nBredesen cruises to 2nd term 8 Nov 2006 12:16 GMT\n... statewide support in beating Republican Bryson Gov. Phil Bredesen rode balanced support from across the state ... more than 2-to-1 margin over Republican challenger Jim Bryson. With 2,227 of Tennessee's 2,330 precincts reporting, ... Smith, Howard M. Switzer and Carl "Twofeathers" Whitaker -- were splitting about 1.6 percent of the statewide ...\nhttp://uspolitics.einnews.com/news/tennessee-governor-campaign-2006
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First of all, William Seward wasn't nominated, and there were 4 candidates. At the time of 1860 election, the party system was fracturing, as there were many people who disagreed with the Democrats on certain issues, like spreading slavery, etc., but did not agree with the Republicans either, and did not want to fracture the union. Thus, 4 major parties had nominees for the presidency, Lincoln for the Republicans, Douglas for the Democrats, John Breckenridge for the Southern Democrats (who took a stronger view on states rights than the Democrats), and John Bell for the Constitutional Union Party.
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The Amendment in practice emancipated only the slaves of Delaware and Kentucky, as everywhere else the slaves had been freed by state action or by the federal government's Emancipation Proclamation.\n\nThe thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several states by the Thirty-eighth Congress, on January 31, 1865.