Transcript Road to Secession 1854-1861

Road to Secession
1854-1861
Standards and Essential Question
SSUSH 9 The student will identify key
events, issues, and individuals relating to
the causes, course and consequences of
the Civil War
 Essential question: Why did the election of
Abraham Lincoln begin secession?
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The Election of 1860
Democrats
Stephen A. Douglas
Repudiate the Freeport Doctrine
Herschel Johnson
John Breckinridge
Joseph Lane
Republicans
Abraham Lincoln
Hannibal Hamlin
Constitutional Union Party
John Bell
Edward Everett
Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Beginning of Secession
The beginning of secession
South Carolina leaves the Union
GA, AL, FL, MS, LA, TX
Approving secession ordinances
Buffer states attempt to force compromise
President Buchanan
John Floyd
The Union & Confederacy in 1861
Attempts at compromise
Crittenden’s Compromise Plan of 1861
John J. Crittenden
President-elect Lincoln rejects
Former President John Tyler
Washington peace conference
Lincoln’s slavery amendment
The Confederate States of
America
A new government?
The first Presidency
Jefferson Davis
Alexander Stephens
The Leaders of the Confederacy
Pres. Jefferson Davis
VP Alexander Stevens
Confederate Cabinet
The Confederate “White House”
The Confederate Seal
MOTTO  “With God As Our Vindicator”
Grim Realities
Rating the North & the South
Resources: North & the South
Railroad Lines, 1860
Slave/Free States Population, 1861
Lincoln’s administration
His cabinet
Sec. Of State-William Seward
Sec. Of Treasury-Samuel P. Chase
Sec. Of War-Edwin Stanton
Confederate President Jefferson
Davis
Inauguration of President Davis
The first shots of the war
Reluctance on both sides
Re-supplying Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter surrenders
Border states take sides
VA, NC, TN & AK
New confederate capital-Richmond, VA.
MD, KY & MS
West Virginia
“preserve the Union and not abolish slavery”
Slaves as contraband
Union Troops
Preparing for war…
The first shots fired…Fort Sumter