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Secession and the Start of the Civil War Chapter 10 Section 4

This chapter examines the election of 1860 and the reasons behind the secession of southern states from the Union, leading to the outbreak of the Civil War.

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Secession and the Start of the Civil War Chapter 10 Section 4

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  1. Secession and the Start of the Civil WarChapter 10 Section 4

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Election of 1860 • Candidate Party Slavery • Lincoln RepublicanNo Expansion • Douglas Northern Democrat Pop. Sov. • Breckinridge Southern Democrat Protect • Bell Constitutional Union Moderate

  5. Lincoln narrowly won the election in the popular vote, but he won the electoral in a landslide

  6. 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. The vote for Abraham Lincoln was mostly a vote for moderation toward the issue of slavery and a vote for the Union.

  7. South Carolina was the first state to secede The southern States formed the Confederacy and chose Jefferson Davis as their president Secession!

  8. 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. Weak

  9. Leadership: Lincoln vs. Davis Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln • detail-oriented • acquired sophisticated sense of strategy • unable to develop broad war strategy • skilled at balancing personalities • burdened by ineffective central government • realistic understanding of the war. • impersonal.

  10. Many of the states with the largest enslaved populations seceded.

  11. The south drafted a new constitution modeled after the US Constitution, but with 2 key differences: The Confederate States of America

  12. #1 Guaranteed the right to own slaves.

  13. # 2 Stressed each state was sovereign and independent.

  14. Senator John Crittenden proposed extending the Missouri Compromise line to California Crittenden Compromise

  15. Lincoln immediately rejected it Republicans became united against slavery

  16. The Confederacy began taking federal buildings in the south Fort Sumter in South Carolina was surrounded by the Confederates Fort Sumter

  17. 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”

  18. The Confederates refused, opened fire The Civil War is on Recruits were called for 3 months of service

  19. 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.

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