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Secession and the Start of the Civil War Chapter 10 Section 4 Objectives • Compare the candidates in the election of 1860 and analyze the results of the election. • Analyze why southern states seceded from the Union. • Assess the events that led to the outbreak of war. Issues leading up to the election of 1860 • Uncertainty about whether Kansas would be a slave state or free state • Northern anger over the Dred Scott decision and Fugitive Slave Act • Concern over whether slavery would be allowed in the territories With ill will running so deep between the North and the South, it was hard to imagine that either side would accept a President from the other region. Election of 1860 • Candidate • Lincoln • Douglas • Breckinridge • Bell Party Republican Slavery No Expansion Northern Democrat Southern Democrat Constitutional Union Pop. Sov. Protect Moderate Lincoln narrowly won the election in the popular vote, but he won the electoral in a landslide The vote for Abraham Lincoln was mostly a vote for moderation toward the issue of slavery and a vote for the Union. The South felt they no longer had a voice in national government. It seemed there was no way to bridge the gap between the North and South. Secession! • South Carolina was the first state to secede • The southern States formed the Confederacy and chose Jefferson Davis as their president Weak • President Buchanan declared no state had the right to secede, but he couldn’t do anything about it. • He decided to let the incoming President deal with the problem. Leadership: Lincoln vs. Davis Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis acquired sophisticated sense of strategy detail-oriented unable to develop broad war strategy burdened by ineffective central government impersonal. skilled at balancing personalities realistic understanding of the war. Many of the states with the largest enslaved populations seceded. The Confederate States of America • The south drafted a new constitution modeled after the US Constitution, but with 2 key differences: #1 Guaranteed the right to own slaves. # 2 Stressed each state was sovereign and independent. Crittenden Compromise • Senator John Crittenden proposed extending the Missouri Compromise line to California • Lincoln immediately rejected it • Republicans became united against slavery Fort Sumter • The Confederacy began taking federal buildings in the south • Fort Sumter in South Carolina was surrounded by the Confederates • Lincoln didn’t want to fire the first shot, but he also didn’t want to surrender the fort • He sent “food for hungry men” • The Confederates refused, opened fire • The Civil War is on • Recruits were called for 3 months of service Objectives • Compare the candidates in the election of 1860 and analyze the results of the election. • Analyze why southern states seceded from the Union. • Assess the events that led to the outbreak of war.