1. The Union Dissolves Essential Questions: Do Now: Homework:
How did the South react to the election of a Republican president?
Do you think it is ever appropriate for a government to declare martial law?
Do Now:
Presidential Election pg. 217
Homework:
Test Tomorrow on Unit 3
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2. Schism in Democrat Party
Northern Democrats
Support Stephen Douglas (IL)
Southern Democrats
Support John C Breckinridge (KY)
Wanted to protect slavery, believed states could secede

3. Constitutional Unionists and Republicans
Support John Bell (TN)
Mostly Know-Nothings and Whigs
Wanted to avoid secession
Republicans
Support Abraham Lincoln (IL)
Opposed spread of slavery

4. Abraham Lincoln Symbolized America Family lived on frontier in poverty
Grew up in log cabin
Achieved success through hard work
Became successful attorney
Was not radical on slavery issue

8. Lincoln Breckinridge Bell Douglas
Lincoln Elected
Election happened on sectional lines
No national political parties
Lincoln wins with no support from South
South Carolina secedes when Lincoln wins
180 72 39 12
Lincoln Breckinridge Bell Douglas

9. Southern States join South Carolina
South Carolina Dec
Florida Jan
Mississippi Jan
Alabama Jan
Louisiana Jan
Texas Feb
Georgia Jan

10. President Jefferson Davis, CSA
Confederate States of America (CSA) were created
Jefferson Davis selected President
Montgomery Alabama was the Capital
CSA believed states voluntarily joined union so could secede
Union believed people made union, not States, so secession is illegal

11. Crittenden Compromise
Last ditch attempt to avoid civil war with constitutional amendments
Reinstate Missouri Compromise line
Forbid federal government interference with slavery
Lincoln and Republicans reject any plan to allow extension of slavery
John Crittenden (KY)

12. Fort Sumter Confederates confiscated all federal property in south
Fort Sumter, SC needed supplies
Lincoln decided to resupply the Fort
South Carolina attacked the Fort to take by force
Beginning of the Civil War