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THE NATION BREAKING APART: Lincoln’s Election and Southern Secession
THE ROAD TO THE CIVIL WAR TARGET #6: What were the Constitutional issues
posed by the Doctrine of Nullification and Secession?
THE ROAD TO THE CIVIL WAR TARGET #13: What was the outcome of the election
of 1860 and South’s reaction to its result?
I. Political Parties Splinter
A. Northern and Southern Democrats disagree about slavery in the party’s platform
B. Platform-A political party’s statement of beliefs
C. Southern Democrats want platform to defend slavery
D. Northern Democrats want platform to support popular sovereignty
E. Northerners win platform, 50 Southern Democrats walk out of convention
F. Northern Democrats nominate Stephen A. Douglass for president
G. Southern Democrats Nominate John Breckinridge
H. Constitutional Union Party nominates John Bell
I. Republicans nominate Abraham Lincoln
II. The Election of 1860
A. 1860 election turns into two races, one in the North, one in the South
B. Lincoln defeats Douglas in North
C. Breckinridge defeats bell in South
D. Lincoln receives the most electoral and popular votes, wins the election
E. Southerners view Republican victory as a threat to their way of life
III. Southern States Secede
A. South Carolina secedes-withdraws from the Union (1860)
B. 6 more Southern states soon join South Carolina in secession
C. Form the Confederate States of America (1861)
D. Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederacy
F. The Confederate Constitution
1. Supports states’ rights
2. Protects slavery in the Confederacy and territories it might acquire
IV. The Union Responds to Secession
A. Northerners consider secession of Southern states unconstitutional
B. President Buchanan believes states do not have right to secede
C. South claims North will use their majority to abolish slavery
D. North claims South does not want to live by the rules of democracy
V. Efforts to Compromise Fail
A. Senator John J Crittenden develops compromise, the Crittenden Plan
B. Plan does not pass; Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated (March 4, 1861)
C. Lincoln is against secession but does not want to invade the South
D. Union forts in South including Fort Sumter need to be resupplied
E. Sets up show-down between North and South