Download Group One Period 7/8--1861 and Lincoln`s First Inaugural Address

Lincoln’s First Inaugural
Address
By: Adria Wilson, Ava McKula, Conor Hogarth,
and Vivi Corre
The Election of 1860: Candidates
Abraham Lincoln: Northern Republican party
•His home state was Illinois
•180 electoral votes
•39.8 percent of the votes
•Was not against slavery
•Did not want slavery to end
John Bell: The Constitutional Union party
•His home state was Tennessee
•39 electoral votes
•12.6 percent of the vote
•Large slave holder
•Opposed to slavery expanding
John Breckinridge: Southern Democrat
•His home state was Kentucky
•72 electoral votes
•18.1 percent of votes
•He wished to protect slaveholders
•He supports southern secession
•fun fact: He was a confederate
general in The Civil War
Stephen A. Douglas: Democrat
•His home town was Illinois
•12 electoral votes
•29.4 percent of the votes
•He blames the agitation and conflict
over slavery on abolitionists
The Electoral College
•A System that determined how much of a say each
state got in the election
•A Process, not a place
•Established by the founding fathers
•There were 303 electoral votes total
•152 votes needed to win
Secession
•The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body,
especially a political state.
•Lincoln believed that secession was completely wrong and unlawful.
•Lincoln thought that it was unconstitutional to secede.
•Seceded states are farther South than others
•The climate in the seceded states was warmer which means more cotton which means
more slaves
•Seven states seceded after Lincoln’s election. Those were the lower Southern states
•Four states secede after Fort Sumter. Those were the upper Southern states
Fort Sumter
• Fort Sumter was located in Charleston South Carolina
• Major Robert Anderson was in charge of the fort
•Fort Sumter is what some might say the beginning of the war
• Confederate officials forced Union troops to leave their fort but they did not
•Lincoln’s dilemma in this was that the troops in the fort only had a months worth of food
left.
•The way that lincoln “fixed” this was he told Jefferson Davis that he was going to send food
but it might take a little longer to get there.
• Jefferson told Beauregard that he had to go and force Anderson out of the fort
•On April 12, 1861 Beauregard charged the fort and sent cannon balls at it and destroyed it
so the union retreated and gave up.
•The public responded very happily to this occasion they had parties and picnics like it was
the fourth of july because the war had finally begun. It was treated as a celebration.
Abraham Lincolns Goals for Unity
•Lincoln wanted the South and the North to be agreeable and
at peace
•He wanted a Union where secession was not a problem
•Lincoln had many goals of the ideal union, he wanted peace
over the on going fight over slavery
•Lincoln wanted the government to be strong
Time Line
November 6, 1860- Abraham Lincoln is elected president
December 20, 1860- South Carolina secedes from the Union
January-February- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas secede
February 9, 1861- The Confederate States of America is formed
March 4, 1861- Lincoln give his first Inaugural Address speech
March 5, 1861- Confederate officials demand Anderson leaves
April 12, 1861- The attack on Fort Sumter
April 17, 1861- Virginia secedes from the Union
April 17-March- Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina secede from the Union to
join the Confederacy
Important Quotes From Lincoln’s First
Inaugural Address
• “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies”
• “Fellow-Citizens of the the United States”
• “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the
institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have
no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
• “In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence, and
there shall be none unless it be forced upon the national
authority.”