Transcript Lincoln and the 1860 Election

LINCOLN AND THE 1860
ELECTION
Presented by
Skylar
Mooyoung,
Ivan Beck,
Jenny Lewis,
Gabe FG
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
• As the Whig Party dissapears the Republican party is able to
become a stronger party
• Lincoln promises to not want to abolish slavery, but he is
apposed to its expansion westward
• Due to its opposition to expansion of slavery the Republican
party gains very little support from the South, but high
support from the North
• The Republican platform supports the federal government
receiving more power than the state government.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
 Originally choosing Douglas as the Democratic party’s only
candidate, slavery arouse as a conflict.
 The South was unhappy with this and the Southern faction
elected Breckinridge to represent them instead.
 The Democratic platform supports the state government
having more power than the federal government
CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PART Y
PLATFORM
 The Constitutional Union Party platform supports all of the
laws of the constitution very heavily.
 The party’s platform also supports the idea of the Union
staying together.
CANDIDATES AND THE ELECTION OF
1860
The Republican candidate
 Abraham Lincoln
The Democratic candidate
 Stephen A . Douglas (Northern Faction)
 John C. Breckinridge (Southern Faction)
Constitutional Union Party candidate
 John Bell
Abraham Lincoln
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE
JOHN BELL
POLITICAL DIVIDE
 Abraham Lincoln wins 40% of the popular vote but is still able
to win the election due to the fact that he wins 60% of the
electoral vote
 Popular vote is what the people of America vote
 Electoral vote is the vote where the states representatives
vote based on the majority of what their states vote
 People call him the least popular president ever elected
POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTE
SECESSION
 Secession is the action of withdrawing formally from
membership of a federation or body, or a political state
 South Carolina secedes in December 1860 before Lincoln is
elected. 6 more states secede before the inaugural address.
The last 4 states secede after Fort Sumter when Lincoln calls
for 75,000 men, with a total of 11 Southern states that
secede.
MAP OF SECESSION
BORDER STATES AND THE SOUTH
 Lincoln tells the border states that they can keep slavery in
order for them to stay with the Union and not seceded.
 Lincoln tells the South that he will not abolish slavery in the
South because “we are not enemies, but friends. We must not
be enemies.”
 These border states are very important toward the civil war. If
Maryland secedes from the union then the south will be in
control of a state directly north of the capital.
 The border states are Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland
and in 1863 West Virginia breaks of f of Virginia and becomes
a border states.
LINCOLNS GOALS
 No intention to destroy slavery, apposed to slavery’s
expansion westward
 Defending the union and keeping it together
 Get the union back together without blood shed
ABOLITIONISTS AND FREE SOILERS
 Lincoln in the inaugural speech, talks to both the free soilers
and the abolitionists in the speech.
 Lincoln describes to the free soilers how he does not want
slavery to expand westward
 Lincoln explains that slavery is the mainly enforced thing in
the country and that is why the country is corrupt -appeals to
abolitionists
LINCOLN AND THE CONSTITUTION
 In the speech, Lincoln looks to the Constitution in recognition
that the Constitution was created in order “to form a more
perfect union”. He believes that with the destruction of the
Union (from secession) the Constitution did not do its part
because the Union was better before the document when the
United States was together.
THE CONSTITUTION AND SLAVERY
 Lincoln believes that the reason why the nation is corrupt is
because the “fugitive slave clause of the Constitution and the
law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade” are the
most enforced laws in the entire nation and constitution. The
South heavily supports them and the North heavily believes
that they are wrong. Lincoln believes that because the nation
has enforced these laws so much that the nation is focusing
on the wrong constitutional aspects of the society.
LINCOLN’S LAST PARAGRAPH
 Lincoln ends his speech with his of f the top of his head
paragraph because he wants his main message to come
across : keeping the Union together
 The lines in the paragraph describe how Lincoln believes that
all the North and the South should stop fighting in the line
“we are not enemies but friends, we must not be enemies.”
 Lincoln also describes how the nation has history, fighting for
their independence, dif ferent systems of government and the
line “The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every
battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth
stone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the
Union.”