Election of 1860

1. Election of 1860

2. Candidates

3. Origins of the American Civil War • Issues • slavery, competing understandings of federalism, party politics, expansionism, sectionalism, tariffs, and economics • ex. Mex-Am War  Comp of 1850 • Collapse of Second Party System • K-N Act angered everyone • Election of 1860  culmination of events

4. Party Platforms • Pop Sov • Support Fug Slave Act • Expansion of slavery into territories • (annexation of Cuba) • Former Whigs, Know-Nothings • Non-extension of slavery • Protective tariff • No limit on rights of immigrants • Internal improvements • homesteads *Appealed to just about all non-southern groups

5. 1860 Election: A Nation Coming Apart?!

8. Election of 1860

9. *Needed to win = 152

10. 152 to win

12. Pre-Civil War Voter Turnout

14. *repeat FAREWELL TO THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNERUnknown Let tyrants and slaves submissively tremble And bow down their necks ‘neath the Juggernaut car; But brave men will rise in the strength of a nation And cry “Give me freedom, or else give me war.” *Farewell, forever! The Star-Spangled Banner, No longer shall wave o’er the land of the free! But we’ll unfurl to the broad breeze of heaven Thirteen bright stars around the Palmetto Tree. We honor, yet, honor, bold South Carolina! Though small she may be, she’s as brave as the best. With flagship of states, she’s out on the ocean Buffeting the waves of a dark billow’s crest.  * We honor, yes, honor, our seceding sisters, Who launched this brave bark along no the sea; Though storms may howl, and thunder distraction We’ll hurl to the blast the proud Palmetto tree.  * And when to the conflict the others cry “Onward!” Virginia will be first to rush to the fight. She’ll break down the iceberg of Northern coercion And rise in her glory of freedom and right. * When the thirteen sisters in bright constellation Shall dazzling shine in a nation’s emblem sky, With no hands to oppose nor foes to oppress them, They will shine there forever, a light to every eye. O! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

15. Post-Election • Lincoln had support rather than support • Less than 50% of popular vote • Had threatened to secede if A.L. won • They did! • Buchanan is a POTUS • Lincoln inaugurated in March …..LAME DUCK PERIOD……………………… November…December…January….February…March

16. Secession Seven states declared their secession from the United States before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861*: • South Carolina • Mississippi • Florida • Alabama • Georgia • Louisiana • Texas *Still eight slave states in Union • After the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, and Lincoln's subsequent call for troops on April 15, four more states declared their secession: • Virginia • Arkansas • Tennessee • North Carolina

17. C.S.A. • Lincoln elected • C.S.A. formed • Elected Pres and VP • passed Constitution • Lincoln inaugurated