1. Splash Screen

2. Section 1: Slavery and Western Expansion Section 2: The Crisis Deepens
Chapter Introduction
Section 1: Slavery and Western Expansion
Section 2: The Crisis Deepens
Section 3: The Union Dissolves
Visual Summary
Chapter Menu

3. Big Ideas
Struggles for Rights After Lincoln’s election to the presidency, many Southerners placed state loyalty above loyalty to the Union.
Section 3-Main Idea

4. Content Vocabulary Academic Vocabulary martial law commitment impose
Section 3-Key Terms

5. People and Events to Identify
John C. Breckinridge
John Bell
Fort Sumter
Crittenden’s Compromise
Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Section 3-Key Terms

6. Section 3-Polling Question
Have you ever felt so strongly about an issue that you would be willing to go to war to defend your ideals?
A. Yes
B. No A B
Section 3-Polling Question

7. The Election of 1860
The election of Abraham Lincoln led the Southern states to secede from the Union.
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8. The Election of 1860 (cont.)
In 1860 the debate over slavery in the western territories finally tore the Democratic Party apart.
Some of the delegates chose Stephen A. Douglas to run for president; the rest chose John C. Breckinridge.
A new party, the Constitutional Unionists, chose John Bell as their candidate.
The Election of 1860
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9. The Election of 1860 (cont.)
The Republicans chose Abraham Lincoln, who won the election.
Shortly after Lincoln’s election, the South Carolina state legislature called for a convention.
They unanimously voted for the Ordinance of Secession.
The Election of 1860
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10. The Election of 1860 (cont.)
The states of the Lower South seceded one after another, seizing all federal property in their states.
Only the island strongholds of Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens, as well as a few other islands off the coast of Florida, remained out of Southern hands.
Steps to Civil War, 1846–1860
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11. The Election of 1860 (cont.)
Many members of Congress still wanted to compromise to avoid civil war, but Lincoln asked congressional Republicans to stand firm, and Crittenden’s Compromise did not pass.
Virginia proposed a peace conference, but none of the secessionist states attended.
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12. The Election of 1860 (cont.)
Instead, they met in Montgomery, Alabama and declared themselves the Confederate States of America.
They elected Jefferson Davis as president of the Confederacy.
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13. Which issue in 1860 finally tore the Democratic Party apart?
A. Slavery in the western territories
B. Secession
C. Lincoln’s nomination by the Republican Party
D. John Brown’s raid A B C D
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14. Section 3-End

15. Figure 4

16. Figure 5a

17. Figure 5b

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