Birth of the Republican Party Unit 6: Antebellum America
Evolution of Politics
Death of the Whig Party
Please Stop giving us your tired, Hungry and Poor…Wait that’s doesn’t sound right… Nativism Dislike IMMIGRATION American Party “Know Nothing Party” Who Supports it? Middle Class White Protestants
Free Soil Party Formed 1848 Disgruntled Party Leftovers OPPOSES the extension of slavery OPPOSES effects on White labor force.
Republican party is born Unhappy Dems + Unhappy Whigs + Free Soilers = Republican Party Party Platform Oppose KS NE Act Oppose the Expansion Of Slavery AKA the “Black Republicans”
Election of 1856
Mr. Scott goes to Washington Unit 6: Antebellum America
Dred Scott Decision The Case The Players Was Dred a Citizen? Does RESIDENCY in FREE territory make you FREE? The Players Roger Taney Dred Scott
Say whaaaaatttt? Dred Scott can never be a citizen CAN’T Sue Free Territory does NOT make a Slave Free. 5th Amendment does not apply Missouri Compromise is overturned Citizenship
Lincoln Douglass Debates Unit 6 Antebellum America
Lincoln Douglas Debates Major Players: Stephen Douglas (D) Abe Lincoln (R) What they are fighting for Senate Seat of IL The Playing Field 7 Open Aired Debates
Lincoln Douglas Debates Stephen Douglas Slavery Is IMMORAL Federal Law to ban extension Civil Rights Deserve “Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness” Not Citizenship Right to vote Right to hold office Slavery Popular Sovereignty Territories choose Got Ya Moment! AL “How can residents prohibit slavery post Scott decision?” SD “Ignore it!” Freeport Doctrine Infuriated the South
Results of the Lincoln Douglas Debates Douglass Won Senate seat in 1858 Cost him Presidency in 1860 Lincoln Seeing into Future? “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.”