Election of 1860

1. Election of 1860 By: The Dream Team

2. The lead up • Missouri compromise • Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Kansas-Nebraska Act • Bleeding Kansas • Dred Scott Case • Lincoln- Douglas Debates

3. Democratic Party • Democratic party split because of Kansas Nebraska act (written by Douglas). • Douglas was a northern democrat. • Breckinridge was a southern democrat. • Breckenridge finished second in electoral vote with the full support of the south. • Douglas finished second in popular vote but won only 2 states. Constitutional Union party • John Bell won the CU nomination. • John won 3 states. (Border states) • Received 39% of the popular southern vote.

4. Republican Party • Abraham Lincoln won the Republican nomination • Barely beat out Seward • Dark horse candidate • Has lost the Senate race twice • Competed with Douglas in the North • Was not on the ballot in most Southern states • Lincoln wanted to keep slavery as it was and keep the Union together • Won the Electoral and Popular vote • Lincoln won the Election of 1860

5. Election of 1860 Results

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7. Northern Reaction • Obviously the civil war was an effect. • Northerners were happy that Lincoln won. • Some extremists believed that Lincoln was not tough enough on slavery.

8. Southern reaction • Southerners believed that Lincoln would abolish slavery. • They felt like they had no say in government • They felt like tariffs would increase • Many resignations in DC

9. Southern reaction part 2 • South Carolina secedes Dec. 20th 1860 • Other Southern States started to secede until Tennessee on June 8th 1861. Making 11 in total. • February 14th 1861- The secessionist states met in Montgomery Alabama to form The Confederate states of America. • Elected Jefferson Davis president. • April 1861 The battle of Fort Sumter.

10. Lincoln on the Civil war November 19, 1863 - Address at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”

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