Events from the year 1859 in the United States. President: James Buchanan (D-Pennsylvania) Vice President: John C. Breckinridge (D-Kentucky) Chief Justice:...

The 1858–59 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 7, 1858, and December 1, 1859. Each...

The 1858–59 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification...

This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from 1820 to 1859. 1820 – Massachusetts divided in two with the admission of Maine...

The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States)...

The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the British–U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, between...

county equivalents in the United States. The 50 states of the United States are divided into 3,007 political subdivisions of states called counties. Two...

punishment for crime is still legal in the United States. By the time of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the status of enslaved people had been...

industry in the United States since the 1859 Pennsylvania oil rush around Titusville, Pennsylvania. Commonly characterized as "Big Oil", the industry...

parties in the United States. Since the late 1850s, its main political rival has been the Republican Party. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828. Martin...