Drifting Toward War Section 3 and 4

Drifting Toward War Lincoln and Douglas One Term in House of Rep 12 Years in Senate Defended Compromise of 1850 Favored Popular Sovereignty Favored Fugitive Slave Law Most influential Democrat Tall, Angular Frame Short, Thickset Frame

1. Debates a. Douglas tries to prove Republicans and Lincoln are abolitionist b. Lincoln corners Douglas on Popular Sovereignty question 2. Freeport Doctrine a. Douglas won the senate seat but lost Southern support for the Presidency in 1860

B. John Browns Raid 1. Radical abolitionist that believed he was sent from heaven to free enslaved people and punish slaveholders 2. Fought in Kansas against Proslavery forces 3. Oct. 16 1859 with 21 followers a. Seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in an attempt of arming enslaved men and women b. Colonel Robert Lee captures him c. John Brown was hanged for treason d. Becomes Martyr in the North

C. The Election of 1860 1. Democratic part splits into 2 groups 2. Republicans gain strength a. Platform stated that slavery should be left undisturbed where it exist and excluded from new territories b. Criticized Know-Nothing Party c. Denounced John Brown d. Called for protective tariffs e. Wanted Transcontinental Railroad 3. Nominate Lincoln as their candidate 4. Lincoln wins election

D. The South Secedes 1. South views Lincoln as an Abolitionist 2. The Confederacy a. Deep South votes for Secession 1. withdraw from the Union 2. 7 States (S.C., Miss., Fl., Al., Ge., Lo., and Tx) 3. Reasons: a. Free States broke their contract to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law b. equal right to new territory

b. Drafted a new Constitution 1. Confederate States of America 3. Uneasy Truce a. Last ditch attempts to get states back into the Union 1. Crittenden Compromise a. 36/30Line-Lincoln refuses 4. Lincoln’s Position a. Believed no state had a right to leave the Union

We, therefore, the People of South Carolina, by our delegates in Convention assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, have solemnly declared that the Union heretofore existing between this State and the other States of North America, is dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina has resumed her position among the nations of the world, as a separate and independent State; with full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.