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The Crisis Deepens. Chapter 10 Section 3. Birth of the Republican Party. Republicans Organize: Anger over the Kansas- Nebraska Act Splits the Whigs Members of the Whig, Democratic, and Free Soil parties combine a new coalition- The Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln. The Election of 1856.
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The Crisis Deepens Chapter 10 Section 3
Birth of the Republican Party • Republicans Organize: • Anger over the Kansas- Nebraska Act Splits the Whigs • Members of the Whig, Democratic, and Free Soil parties combine a new coalition-The Republican Party Abraham Lincoln
The Election of 1856 • Candidates: • John C. Fremont • James Buchanan • Millard Fillmore • Buchanan- is elected because he campaigns on saving the Union. John C. Fremont James Buchanan Millard Fillmore
Sectional Divisions Grow • Dred Scott • Slave who was brought into free territory to live • Sued for his freedom • He lost • The Case intensified sectional conflict • Democrats Cheered the decision • Republicans condemned it
Lincoln and Douglass • Illinois Senate Race • Abraham Lincoln- “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” • Stephen A. Douglas- “The Little Giant.” • Lincoln believed slavery to be morally wrong, but not a abolitionist. • Douglas’s “Freeport Doctrine”- keep slavery out by refusing to pass the laws needed to enforce it Abraham Lincoln Stephen A. Douglass
John Browns Raid • Fervent abolitionist who led an insurrection against slave holders at Harpers Ferry Federal Arsenalin Virginia. • He would free and arm the slaves and he thought the slaves would rise up and kill all the slave holders. • Col. Robert E. Leetook a company of US Marines into the arsenal and put down John Brown’s rebellion. • John BrownWas captured, tried and executed by hanging.