Transcript Election of 1860 and Secession

Warm-Up
K-W-L
9/9/15
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about the Civil War?
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Secession &
Civil War
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It’s
1860
The North – New York City
1860
• Large cities. New York,
Boston, and other
major cities tripled or
even quadrupled in
size from 1820 to 1860
as people left their
farms to find work in
the cities.
• Semipro organized
baseball clubs had
sprung up all over New
York. First officially
organized baseball
game played in
California was in 1860
• Professional football
began in Germany
1860
The South - Charleston, SC 1860
• Most states had free public schools
• Higher education became possible for women,
but they were still expected to marry and stay
at home with their children.
• John Brown had just been hanged in
December of ‘59 for his raid on Harpers Ferry,
West Virginia.
The West - Nevada in 1860
• First white settlement in Idaho
• The Pony Express begins its first run
• Wiyot Massacre: 80 to 250 Wiyot people were killed
on Indian Island, near Eureka, California.
Abraham Lincoln is
selected as the U.S.
presidential
candidate for the
Republican Party.
The
election
of
1860
4
candidates;
3 from the
South, just
1 from the
North.
Lincoln was
not even on
the ballot in
the South!
Lincoln won!
How did having so many
candidates cause the South to
lose the election?
When a
political party
or belief has
more than one
candidate, it
splits the vote
and often
allows the
rival party or
belief to win
the election.
The vote for
Abraham
Lincoln was
mostly a vote
for
moderation
toward the
issue
of slavery and
a vote for the
Union.
However,
the South
felt it no
longer had a
voice in the
national
government
and did not
see how it
could
remain in
the Union.
At a state
convention
held six weeks
after Election
Day, South
Carolina
legislators
voted
to secede.
It was a
unanimous
vote.
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Secession South
Carolina
was the
first
southern
state to
leave the
Union.
Outgoing President Buchanan publicly condemned South
Carolina’s action.
However, he did not use force to prevent it.
Within weeks, six
other Southern
states
followed South
Carolina.
First States to Secede
So. Carolina
Dec. 20, 1860
Mississippi
Jan. 9, 1861
Florida
Jan. 10, 1861
Alabama
Jan. 11, 1861
Georgia
Jan.19, 1861
Louisiana
Jan 26, 1861
The others seceded:
Texas
March 2, 1861
Virginia
April 17, 1861
Arkansas
May 6, 1861
North Carolina
May 20, 1861
Tennessee
June 8, 1861
West Virginia Formed
June, 1863
Virginia
split into
TWO
STATES…
West Virginia
stayed with the
Union (even
though they were
still a slave state)
Border States: States who wanted
slavery, but didn’t want to leave the
Union.
Should states be allowed to
secede if they want to?
Thesis 1: Yes
Thesis 2: No
because….