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Aim # 36: What were the results of the Election of 1856 and the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

Aim # 36: What were the results of the Election of 1856 and the Lincoln-Douglas debates?. Do now! Read the excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates and answer the accompanying questions. Copy down the aim Take out your homework packet and John Brown questions (from Friday).

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Aim # 36: What were the results of the Election of 1856 and the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

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  1. Aim #36: What were the results of the Election of 1856 and the Lincoln-Douglas debates? Do now! Read the excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates and answer the accompanying questions. Copy down the aim Take out your homework packet and John Brown questions (from Friday)

  2. Major Political Parties 1848-1860 1. WHAT ISSUE IS ADDRESSED BY ALMOST ALL THE PARTIES SHOWN ON THE CHART?

  3. Election of 1856: the candidates • John Fremont: Republican; opposed further expansion of slavery • James Buchanan: Democrat; endorsed popular sovereignty(out of country during Kansas-Nebraska Act so didn’t antagonize either section of the country) • Millard Fillmore: Know Nothing Party; nativist

  4. FREMONT, Republican Buchanan, Democrat

  5. (II) LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES (1858) a. Race for US Senate seat (Illinois) b. Issues 1. Expansion of slavery (Lincoln – opposed; Douglas – favored pop. sovereignty 2. authority of states to control slavery within their own borders 3. was Dred Scott decision correct? c. Freeport Doctrine 1. could the people of a territory legally exclude slavery before achieving statehood? 2. Douglas reply: if a territory refused to have slavery, no laws or Supreme Court ruling could force them to permit it 3. Lincoln: US cannot survive ½ slave and ½ free (“a house divided against itself cannot stand”)

  6. Questions: What does this speech tell you about life in the U.S. in 1858? How can the sentiments expressed in this speech apply to today? (think of some of the issues being discussed in the presidential elections)

  7. d. Results of Debates • Douglas won by a slim margin (at this time, state legislatures chose candidate – changed by 17th amendment) • Lincoln became well known nationally

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