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Abraham Lincoln. Rise to Election. Early Life. “It is great folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. It can all be condensed into a simple sentence…’the short and simple annals of the poor.’ That’s my life, and that’s all you can make of it.” - Abe Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln Rise to Election
Early Life “It is great folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. It can all be condensed into a simple sentence…’the short and simple annals of the poor.’ That’s my life, and that’s all you can make of it.” - Abe Lincoln
Early Life Born in Kentucky Moved with his family to Indiana and then Illinois Went to school for about one year Learned to read and write Loved to read Educated himself
Unlucky in love Abraham Lincoln bids farewell to Ann Rutledge
Marriage Abe and Mary were married in 1842 after a long courtship
Early career 1832 enlisted in the Illinois state militia to help fight the Black Hawk War. Trained and drilled as a Captain Never saw any action In 1834 at age 25 was elected to the Illinois state legislature. While in the legislature Lincoln studied to become a lawyer.
Illinois Politics In 1846 Lincoln served as a member of the House of Representatives as a member of the Whig Party
Republican Party Kansas-Nebraska Act benefitted the South It split Northerners Northerners who hated it formed the Republican Party The Republican Party was based on one main goal: Keeping slavery out of new territories.
The Spirit of seventy-six and the spirit of Nebraska, are utter antagonisms…little by little … we have been giving up the old for the new faith. Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for some men to enslave others is a “sacred right of self-government.” These principles cannot stand together…Our republican robe is soiled, and trailed in the dust. Let us repurify it… let us re-adopt it…let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it… If we do this, we shall not only save the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of saving. Abraham Lincoln October 16, 1854, Peoria, Illinois Quoted in Battle Cry of Freedom page 129
Lincoln-Douglas Debate • 1858: Abe Lincoln ran for one of Illinois’ Senate seats • He ran against Stephen Douglas
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Stephen Douglas was a Democrat who wanted to compromise with the South
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Douglas favored letting people decide using Popular Sovereignty Lincoln opposed the expansion of slavery in any way.
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Results……. Douglas won the election and became Illinois’ Senator Douglas’ arguments made him unpopular in the South. Lincoln was already unpopular in the South Lincoln is thrust in the national spotlight
Presidential Election of 1860 • Democrats were divided • Southern Democrats wanted to protect slavery in the new territories • Northern Democrats (including Douglas) wanted to stick to Popular Sovereignty
Presidential Election of 1860 Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln Constitutional Union party nominated John Bell Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas Southern Democrats nominated John Breckinridge
Southern Reaction to Lincoln’s Election Southerners feared Northern aggression Feared Northern majority in congress (18 free states to 15 slave states) Feared that Abraham Lincoln would free all the slaves. Southern states secede from the union
Secession the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, esp. a political state
Secession South Carolina seceded first (even before Lincoln took office) Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas follow.
Fort Sumter Once South Carolina secedes from the Union, Fort Sumter is now a United States fort in the Confederate States of America (enemy territory) Confederate leaders tell the US Army to surrender Fort Sumter US Army refuses
