Transcript A Country On The Brink of War!!

A Country On The Brink of
War!!
In this Section:
• Election of 1860 (PAGES 111-113)
• Candidates of 1860 Election
Election of 1860: THE CANDIDATES!!!
John Bell
Lincoln
John C. Breckinridge
Stephen Douglas
Abraham
John Bell
• Senator from Tennessee
• Did NOT Support the expansion of
slavery
• Member of the Constitutional
Union Party
• Supported the Union until the Siege
of Fort Sumter then sided with the
Confederacy
John C. Breckinridge
• Former 14thVice President of the
United States.
• From Kentucky
• Member of the Democratic Party,
Southern
• Came in 2nd place in the election.
• Supported Slavery
• General in the Confederacy
Stephen Douglas
• Senator from Illinois
• Known for his debates with Abraham
Lincoln in 1858 for the US Senate.
• Briefly dated Abraham Lincoln’s future
wife, Mary Todd, while in college.
• Supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act which
led to Kansas Civil War.
• Member of the Democratic Party,
Northern.
• Supported expansion of slavery by popular
sovereignty.
• Died after the election in 1861.
Abraham Lincoln
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From Illinois.
Member of the Republican Party
Winner of the 1860 Election.
16th President of the United States.
Opposes the expansion of slavery into
US Territory.
• Eventually opposes slavery altogether.
• Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in
1865.
Clip of Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cYWUlEV3Mg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKfNMel5dug
Secession
• Following the Election of 1860, South Carolina becomes the 1st state to
secede or leave the United States on December 20, 1860.
• Mississippi is the 2nd state to secede on January 9, 1861.
• Florida, Alabama Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas,
Tennessee, North Carolina all join before the summer of 1861.
• First shots of the Civil War fired April 1861 in Fort Sumter in Charleston,
South Carolina, when Southern forces attacked the US fort.
Jefferson Davis
• Served as US Senator from
Mississippi before the Civil War.
• Elected President of the
Confederate States of America.
• Only President of the CSA.