Election of 1860
KEY CONCEPTS
• The issues in the election 1860, the sectional divisions it
revealed.
• The movement toward secession and formation of the
Confederacy and the failure of the last compromise effect.
Ch. 19
Four candidates sought the presidency
• Democrats split
– Pres. Buchanan out
• Covode Committee
– Northern candidate – Stephen A.
Douglas
– Southern candidate – John C.
Breckinridge
• Constitutional Union
Party – John Bell
• Republicans – Abraham
Lincoln
John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Lincoln
Election Day
• Lincoln was elected
– Ballot
– Federal Union was
threatened
– South Carolina seceded
(Dec 20, 1860)
Reading: South Carolina Defines the Causes of Secession
The Secessionists Exodus
• Confederate States of
America (Feb 1861)
• Jefferson Davis
– Alexander Stephens
The Secessionists Exodus
• Confederate
Constitution vs. U.S.
Constitution
The Secessionists Exodus
• James Buchanan – lame
duck
– Lincoln’s response?
• Crittenden’s compromise
– John Crittenden
– Proposal
– outcome
Tensions over Political Theories
• The Contract Theory north
• The Compact Theory south
Ch. 18 and 19
Left-Side
“Divisive Politics of Slavery”
Task: For each event, what argument(s) could each side claim to support their POV.
Proslavery
forces
• For each event, what
argument(s) could be
used to support POV?
topics
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Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Underground Railroad
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party
Dred Scott decision
The raid on Harpers Ferry
The election of Lincoln to
the presidency
Antislavery
forces
• For each event, What
argument(s) could be
used to support POV?
Take-A-Stand: Which event(s) gave rise to the greatest amount
of divisive politics on the eve of the Civil War? Support.