Download Lincoln Election 1860 Ppt

As I would not be
a slave, so I would
not be a master.
This expresses my
idea of democracy.
Although Lincoln did not defeat Douglas for the Illinois
Senate seat in 1858, he did establish a national
reputation for himself and made clear the Republican
Party principles.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I
believe this government cannot endure permanently
half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to
be dissolved…but I do expect it will cease to be
divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”
A. Lincoln
A Nation Divides
The Election of 1860
The South Reacts
The Civil War Begins
 Republicans
nominated Abraham Lincoln
 Democrats split
• Northern Democrats – Stephen Douglas
• Southern Democrats – John C. Breckenridge
 Constitutional
Union Party (new) chose John Bell
(moderate who wanted to keep the
Union)
 Lincoln was elected as President.
 Southerners
believed that the election of
Lincoln meant the South no longer had a
voice in government
 Senator
John Crittenden of KY made a last
effort for compromise, proposing a
Constitutional amendment guaranteeing
slavery where it already existed, but it
failed.
 In
Dec. of 1860, South Carolina became the
first state to secede (break away from
Union)
 1861- Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, and Texas also seceded.
 Formed a new nation, the Confederate States
of America
 Jefferson Davis became their president.

When Lincoln took office he said, “In YOUR
hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and
not in MINE, is the momentous issue of civil
war…We are not enemies, but friends. We must
not be enemies. Though passion may have
strained, it must not break our bonds of
affection.” – Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
What does he mean?
 Civil War – war between people of the same
country.
 Battle
of Fort Sumter (April 12, 1861)
• Confederates demanded that Fort Sumter surrender
• Union troops refused
• Confederates opened fire
• April 13 – Union surrendered fort
• Start of 4-year civil war
• 4 more states join the CSA
after the Battle of Fort Sumter
(AK, TN, VA, NC)
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