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10-3 The Birth of the Republican Party 10-4 Slavery and Secession

10-3 The Birth of the Republican Party 10-4 Slavery and Secession. Pgs. 295-298. Slavery Divides Whigs ½ supported slavery and ½ was antislavery Nativism American Party Had secret organization “The Order of the Star-Spangled Banner” Favored native borns over immigrants

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10-3 The Birth of the Republican Party 10-4 Slavery and Secession

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  1. 10-3 The Birth of the Republican Party10-4 Slavery and Secession Pgs. 295-298

  2. Slavery Divides Whigs • ½ supported slavery and ½ was antislavery • Nativism • American Party • Had secret organization “The Order of the Star-Spangled Banner” • Favored native borns over immigrants • A.K.A. Know-Nothing Party • Were split over the issue of slavery • Many Northerners sided with the Republican Party. New Political Parties Emerge

  3. Free-Soil Party – opposed the extension of slavery into the territories. • Republican Party • Formed with anti-slavery supporters • Opposed Kansas-Nebraska Act and wanted to keep slavery out of new territories. • Attracted temperance supporters. • Competition was the Know-Nothing Party • 1856 Election showed that all Northerners voted Republican and Southerners voted Democrats. Antislavery Parties Form

  4. Dred Scott v. Sanford • Dred Scott was a slave whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin and back to Missouri. • Scott sued his owner for freedom on the grounds that living in a free state (IL.) and a free territory (WI) made him a free man. • Went to the supreme Court • Roger B. Taney – Scott lacked any legal standing to sue in federal court because he was not and could never be a citizen. • Slaves were property, and according to the constitution, they could move to any territory. • Ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. Slavery Domitates Politics

  5. The Lecompton Constitution • Kansas applied for admission into the Union • Free-soilers rejected the proposed constitution because it protected the rights of slaveholders already living in Kansas. • Constitution kept getting rejected because of slavery issue. Slavery Domitates Politics

  6. Illinois Senate race • Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas • Lincoln challenged Douglas to debates throughout the state of Illinois. • Positions and Arguments • Douglas – popular sovereignty, didn’t believe slavery to be unmoral • Lincoln – slavery unmoral, • Neither man wanted slavery in the new territories Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  7. The Freeport Doctrine – Douglas said that people could get around the Dred Scott decision about slavery in a new territory. • Douglas won the Senate seat, but people began to think of Lincoln as a presidential candidate. Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  8. Harpers Ferry • John Brown led around 18 men into Harpers Ferry, Virginia to seize the federal arsenal there, distribute the captured arms to slaves in the area, and start a general salve uprising. • 8 of Brown’s men killed and Brown was tried for treason. • John Brown’s Hanging • On December 2, 1859 Brown as hanged for treason in the presence of fede4ral troops and a crowd of observers. • People had mixed reviews about Brown. Passion’s Erupt

  9. The Republican Convention • Took place in Chicago • Lincoln nominated for president. • Election of 1860 • Democratic party was split over slavery issue so Lincoln won presidency Lincoln is Elected President

  10. With the election of Lincoln Southerners felt that they had no voice in politics • S. Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860. • Soon more southern states followed. • The Shaping of the Confederacy • Called themselves the Confederate States of America. • Jefferson Davis was president. • Constitution recognized states rights. Southern Secession

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