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The Republican Party Emerges Setting the Scene

The Republican Party Emerges Setting the Scene. Chapter 16 section 4. Pg.473. The Republican Party Emerges Setting the Scene. Chapter 16 section 4. Pg.473. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure

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The Republican Party Emerges Setting the Scene

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  1. The Republican Party Emerges Setting the Scene Chapter 16 section 4 Pg.473

  2. The Republican Party Emerges Setting the Scene Chapter 16 section 4 Pg.473 A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved--- I do not expect the house to fall--- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other thing. Abraham Lincoln predicts the coming of a great battle between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces.

  3. The Republican Party Emerges Setting the Scene Chapter 16 section 4 Pg.473

  4. The Republican Party Emerges The Republican Party Chapter 16 section 4 Pg.473

  5. Chapter 16 section 4 The Republican Party Emerges The Republican Party Pg.473 The Republican Party was born in Michigan! Free soilers + northern Democrats + anti-slavery Whigs The REPUBLICAN PARTY Goal: Stop the spread of slavery. Keep slavery out of the western territories. * At first, only a few abolitionist Republicans wanted to totally end slavery in the United States.

  6. The Republican Party Emerges The Republican Party The Election of 1856 Chapter 16 section 4 Pg.473

  7. The Election of 1856 Chapter 16 section 4 Pg.473 “Know-Nothing” / American Party Democrats Republicans Frémont / Dayton Buchanan / Breckenridge Fillmore / Donelson

  8. The Election of 1856 Chapter 16 section 4 Pg.473 Democrats Republicans vs. John C. Frémont James Buchanan

  9. The Election of 1856 Chapter 16 section 4 Pg.473 Frémont Buchanan Fillmore

  10. The Election of 1856 Chapter 16 section 4 Pg.473

  11. Chapter 16 section 4 The Republican Party Emerges Abe Lincoln of Illinois Pg.473

  12. Chapter 16 section 4 Abe Lincoln of Illinois From the Backwoods of Kentucky Pg.473

  13. Abe Lincoln of Illinois Chapter 16 section 4 Pg.473 Young Abe Lincoln Born in a log cabin in Kentucky From the Backwoods of Kentucky Split wood for railroad rails A lawyer in Illinois

  14. Chapter 16 section 4 Lincoln-Douglas Debates Pg.473 1858 Election for the Illinois U.S. Senate Seat This election had national attention because Stephen Douglas was probably running for president in 1860. People wanted to hear what he had to say. Stephen A. Douglas

  15. Chapter 16 section 4 Lincoln-Douglas Debates Abraham Lincoln Stephen A. Douglas Both were running for Senator of Illinois in 1858.

  16. Chapter 16 section 4 Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  17. Chapter 16 section 4 Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  18. Chapter 16 section 4 Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  19. Chapter 16 section 4 Lincoln-Douglas Debates “There is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights [listed] in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…. In the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.” Lincoln calls out Douglas... * From the debate in Ottawa, Illinois

  20. Chapter 16 section 4 Lincoln-Douglas Debates “We have settled the slavery question as far as we are concerned; we have prohibited it in Illinois forever, …. but when we settled it for ourselves, we exhausted all our power over that subject. We must leave each and every other state to decide for itself the same question….Now, my friends, if we will only act conscientiously and rigidly upon this great principle of popular sovereignty, we will continue at peace, one with the other.” * From the debate in Ottawa, Illinois Douglas responds to Lincoln...

  21. Chapter 16 section 4 Lincoln-Douglas Debates The debates were printed in newspapers and read all across the country. Debates Ottawa, Illinois Freeport, Illinois Jonesboro, Illinois Charleston, Illinois Galesburg, Illinois Quincy, Illinois Alton, Illinois

  22. Chapter 16 section 4 Lincoln-Douglas Debates In the end, Stephen Douglas won the senate seat for Illinois, but now many people in America knew who Abraham Lincoln was and were thinking about the things he said in his many speeches.

  23. Chapter 16 section 4 John Brown’s Raid

  24. Chapter 16 section 4 John Brown’s Raid John Brown radical abolitionist In 1859, John Brown and a group of followers traveled from Kansas to Harpers Ferry, Virginia with a plan to capture the federal arsenal and start a slave revolt.

  25. Chapter 16 section 4 John Brown’s Raid Sentenced to Death

  26. Chapter 16 section 4 John Brown’s Raid Brown and his followers captured the arsenal, but no slaves arrived for the revolt and uprising. Instead, the U.S. Marines under the command of Captain Robert E. Lee came and captured John Brown and his followers.

  27. Chapter 16 section 4 John Brown’s Raid Sentenced to Death John Brown was found guilty of treason for leading the revolt and capturing the arsenal. He was sentenced to death by hanging.

  28. Chapter 16 section 4 John Brown Hero or Villain?

  29. Chapter 16 section 4 John Brown Hero or Villain? The hanging of John Brown for treason

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