Transcript Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

The Union Dissolves
Chapter 8
Section 3
Lincoln is Elected President
O A. Republican Convention – took place in
Chicago, 1860 at the Wigwam Hotel
O Seaward
O Credentials of having led antislavery forces in
Congress
O Financial backing
O Desire to be center of attention
O Well known name
Election of 1860
O Northern Democrats – Stephen Douglas
O Southern Democrats – John C.
Breckenridge
O KK and Whigs – John Bell
O Republicans – Abraham Lincoln
O Lincoln won the Election – Sectional Support
O 1.9 million – 2.8million votes
O 180 – 123 in the E.C.
O Never appeared on a ballot in most of the slave
states
1860
Presidential
Election
Stephen A. Douglas
Northern Democrat
John Bell
Constitutional Union
Republican Party Platform in 1860
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1860 Election: 3 “Outs” & 1 ”Run!”
Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860
1860 Election: A Nation Coming Apart?!
1860
Election
Results
Crittenden Compromise:
A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity
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Six proposed constitutional
amendments and four proposed
Congressional resolutions
Would have guaranteed the
permanent existence of slavery
in the slave states by
reestablishing the free-slave
demarcation line drawn by the
1820 Missouri Compromise.
Drew support from Southern
leaders, its rejection by many
Northern Republicans, including
President-elect Abraham Lincoln,
led to its ultimate failure.
What was the Crittenden
Compromise and why
did it fail.
Southern Secession
O The south had decided that they had lost
their voice in national politics – nothing
left to do but secede
O Dec. 20, 1860 South Carolina leads the way
O Sherman’s Reaction
O Mississippi 2/9/61 & Florida 2/10/61 –
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas
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What main event triggered
the secession of Southern
states?
Fort Sumter Falls
O Fort Sumter is an island fortification located
in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
O Site of the first shots of the Civil War.
O U.S. Major Robert Anderson occupied the
unfinished fort in December 1860 following
South Carolina’s secession from the Union.
O After a 34-hour exchange of artillery fire,
Anderson and 86 soldiers surrendered the
fort on April 13.
Hanging on to the border states
O The residents of the border were torn between
their close cultural ties with the South, on the
one hand, and their long tradition of Unionism
and political moderation on the other.
O Four slave states had never declared a
secession: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and
Missouri.
O To prevent secession President Lincoln imposed
martial law to protect federal troops.
Why were the border states
of Maryland and Kentucky
so important to the Union?
Use the Graphic organizer to list the various parties’
candidates and political positions
in the 1860 election
Party
Northern Democrat
Southern Democrat
Constitutional Unionist
Republican
Candidate
Position