Transcript Election of 1860 Ppt - Taylor County Schools

As I would not be
a slave, so I would
not be a master.
This expresses my
idea of democracy.
Although Lincoln did not defeat Douglas for the Illinois
Senate seat in 1858, he did establish a national
reputation for himself and made clear the Republican
Party principles.
“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…but I do expect it will cease to be
divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”
A. Lincoln
A Nation Divides
The Election of 1860
The South Reacts
The Civil War Begins
 Republicans
nominated Abraham Lincoln
 Democrats split
• Northern Democrats – Stephen Douglas
• Southern Democrats – John C. Breckenridge
 Constitutional
Union Party (new) chose John Bell
(moderate who wanted to keep the
Union)
 Lincoln was elected as President.
 Southerners
believed that the election of
Lincoln meant the South no longer had a
voice in government
 Senator
John Crittenden of KY made a last
effort for a compromise, proposing a
Constitutional amendment guaranteeing
slavery where it already existed, but it did
not work
 In
Dec. of 1860, South Carolina became the
first state to secede (break away from
Union)
 1861- Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, and Texas also seceded.
 Formed a new nation, the Confederate States
of America
 Jefferson Davis became their president.
 When
Lincoln took office he said, “In YOUR
hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,
and not in MINE, is the momentous issue of
civil war…We are not enemies, but friends.
We must not be enemies. Though passion
may have strained, it must not break our
bonds of affection.” – Lincoln, First Inaugural
Address
What does he mean?
 Civil War – war between people of the same
country.
 Battle
of Fort Sumter (April 12, 1861)
• Confederates demanded that Fort Sumter surrender
• Union troops refused
• Confederates opened fire
• April 13 – Union surrendered
• Start of 4-year civil war
• 4 more states join the Confederacy
after the Battle of Fort Sumter
(AK, TN, VA, NC)