Transcript Abraham Lincoln

Bell Ringer!
• Why were sectional differences developing
in the United States?
– Economic conditions, geography and interests
in each region varied
• North – industrial economy
• South – plantation economy
• What is a political party?
– organized group of people with at least roughly
similar political aims and opinions
– Disputes over slavery lead to the creation of
new political parties
Whigs
Free Soil
Party
opposed the spread of
slavery into new territories
Anti-Slavery
Democrats
*Republican
Party (1854)
1856 Election
White
House
here I
come!
Fillmore – Know-Nothing party (received 22% of vote)
Fremont – Republican party (received 33% of vote)
Buchanan – Democratic party from PA (received 45% of vote)
*WINNER!
Abraham
Lincoln
Stephen
Douglas
What were the main positions they held on slavery?
Why were these debates important?
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Lincoln – Douglas Debates
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln challenged
incumbent Stephen Douglas for his seat
in the Senate.
Results:
Douglas won the election by a slim margin
If he lost, then why are debates so important?
Lincoln became a
nationally known figure
Lincoln – Douglas
Debates
Stephen Douglas:
VOTERS in territories
to decide whether or not
to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
Lincoln – Douglas Debates
Abraham Lincoln:
• Slavery was a moral wrong and
should be kept out of the new
territories
• Slave owners can keep their slaves
and slavery will continue to exist
where it is
• Sectional differences threatened to
destroy the Union
• ‘A house divided against itself cannot
stand.’
• “I believe this government cannot
endure, permanently half slave and half
free. I do not expect the Union to be
dissolved – I do not expect the house to
fall – but I do expect it will cease to be
divided. It will become all one thing, or
all the other”
Abraham Lincoln (1858), from first campaign speech
running for US Senate
“PRESERVE THE UNION”
Could Lincoln have stopped the
war?
Crittenden Plan
Proposed Amendments to the Constitution:
*Slavery "hereby recognized" and could not be
interfered with by Congress.
*Congress could not prohibit or interfere with the
interstate slave trade.
*No future amendment of the Constitution could
change these amendments or authorize or
empower Congress to interfere with slavery
within any slave state.
Secede – to withdraw or leave
“Southern secession” means that states in the
South are leaving the United States and
creating their own new country
What argument did Lincoln use
against secession of the Southern
states?
The government was a union of PEOPLE
NOT of states
Lincoln’s Election and the Start
of the American Civil War
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A NATION DIVIDED
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