Transcript 10.4 Secession and the Coming of War

Ch. 10 Sec. 4
 America Divided
 What events led the South to secede from the Union?
 Republicans choose Abraham
Lincoln
 Platform:
 1. Non-Extension of slavery
 2. Protective tariff for Northern manufacturers.
 3. Immigrants rights – Irish vote
 4. Northern route for transcontinental railroad
 All of Lincoln’s support comes from
Northern states.
 Democrats are deeply divided.
 Northern dems nominate Stephen
Douglass.
 Creator of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
 Doesn’t have much support in the North
or South
 Southern dems nominate John
Breckenridge.
 Current VP and supporter of the Dred
Scott decision.
 Constitutional Union Party-
Nominate John Bell
 No chance.
 Outcome:
 1. Lincoln – 180 Electoral Votes - 1.8 Million Votes
 2. Douglas – 12 Electoral Votes – 1.3 Million Votes
 3. Breckenridge- 72 Electoral Votes – 800,000 Votes
 4. Bell – 39 Electoral Votes – 600,000 Votes
 Meaning of outcome:
 1. Political parties have become completely sectionalized.
 2. South Carolina had threatened to secede if Lincoln won.
 Could a united Democratic party win?
 Dec. 20 1860. - 1st state to secede from the Union – South Carolina
 Jan. 10 – Georgia, Alabama, Florida
 Feb. 1- Louisiana and Texas
 Feb. 8- Confederate States of America formed in Montgomery, AL.
 NOTE THAT ALL THIS TAKES PLACE BEFORE LINCOLN TAKES OFFICE.
 1. Wanted slavery, dislike of Free-Soil politics.
 2. Tired of abolitionist nagging.
 3. Tired of Northern interference – Fugitive
Slave Act, John Brown
 4. Sectional Isolation – Cultural, economical,
geographical, intellectual
 5. Moral emotionalism associated with
slavery.
 6. Misread Northern resolve– Assumed they
would be able to go in peace.
 Slavery would be protected in the Confederate States.
 States’ Rights
 Create a new system where the states had more power than the federal gov’t.
 MS Senator Jefferson Davis would be President.
 The North did aggressively attempt peace to preserve the
Union.
 Crittenden Proposal
 1. Extension of slavery to the territories – no messing with slavery in the South.
 2. Constitutional amendment guaranteeing the protection of slavery.
 3. Compensation for unrecovered fugitive slaves.
 Lincoln did not agree with expanding slavery, thus the proposal dies.
 Lincoln’s Inaugural Address –
 “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow
countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous
issue of civil war. The government will not assail
you. You can have no conflict without yourselves
being the aggressors. You have not oath
registered in heaven to destroy the government,
while I have the most solemn one to ‘preserve,
protect, and defend’ it.”
 Maintains the Union is indispensible.
 Attempts to place the fault of the conflict on the
South.
 Confederate Army had control of all major military
forts in the South except Ft. Sumter.
 Lincoln needed to keep it, so he sent a ship to resupply the
fort.
 Confederate troops order Major Robert Anderson to
surrender.
 Agrees to surrender in two days.
 Delay is refused, Confederate forces fire on Ft. Sumter
April 12, 1861.
 33 hours later Anderson surrenders. No deaths.
 Ft. Sumter
 Lincoln views the attack as treason.
 Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to strengthen the 15,000-strong
army.
 Border states secede – April 1861
 Virginia, North Carolina, and Arkansas will all join the CSA.
 Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri – Border States
 Maryland- holds nations capital, will remain slave but neutral.
 Kentucky and Missouri same.
 Union successfully detaches West Virginia from Virginia.
 Let’s see how we got to this point. Get with a partner.
 Take a sheet of white copy paper.
 Use your notes to make a timeline with these dates:
 1831, 1850, 1852, 1854, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861
 Word Bank:
 South Carolina Secedes
 Confederation Established
 Dred Scott decision
 Lincoln-Douglas debates
 Kansas-Nebraska Act
 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
 Missouri Compromise
 Lincoln Elected President
 Harper’s Ferry
 Compromise of 1850