1. Essay Q

2. Assess the validity of this view
Highlight any key words that need defining
Create a criteria: what would need to happen for Kansas to be the most significant event in the destabilisation of events
Judgement: do you think this statement is valid? If not which was event was most important?
‘Bleeding Kansas’ was the most significant event in the de- stabilisation of relations between the North and South in the years to 1856.’
Assess the validity of this view

3. Assess the validity of this view
Create a brief timeline of events between
Rank them in terms of how far they destabilised relations between the North and South
Plan PEEL paragraphs that you would use to answer this question
‘Bleeding Kansas’ was the most significant event in the de- stabilisation of relations between the North and South in the years to 1856.’
Assess the validity of this view

4. Assess the validity of this view
Re-assert your judgement, the same one that you made in your introduction
Substantiate it (back it up)
‘Bleeding Kansas’ was the most significant event in the de- stabilisation of relations between the North and South in the years to 1856.’
Assess the validity of this view

5. Lincoln Douglas

6. By the end of this lesson, everybody will be able to…
Describe the Lincoln-Douglas debates
Explain the impact of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
Assess the significance of the Lincoln Douglas debates

7. Lincoln-Douglas debates
What?
Where?
Why?
Why is it important?
Result?
7 open-air debates during the Illinois state Congressional elections of 1858
Illinois – Northern free state
Douglas was seeking a third term of office as a Democrat Senator for Illinois, Lincoln was his Republican Party challenger.
The debates were for which person represents Illinois in the NATIONAL/US/FEDERAL SENATE should.
At the time, U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures (state Congress made up of a House of Representatives and Senate.) – (INDIRECT ELECTION). Thus Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature.
They discussed the really big issues of the day – sectional conflict, slavery, states’ rights. Although Lincoln lost it was evident that he was a rising star. Douglas was the little giant of the Democratic Party and his power base was Illinois and usually the democrats would expect to win there. But Lincoln was a rising star of the new Republican party which had done well in the 1856 election in the North.
Republicans (Lincoln) won 125,000 votes and Democrats (Douglas won 121,000). But because of the electoral system, more democrats were elected to the state legislature tan Republicans - (House: 40 Democrats against 35 Republicans)(Senate 14 Democrats against 11 Republicans) –Douglas was returned as Senator with 54 votes.
Lincoln-Douglas debates

9. Constitution allows for same rights provided in the Dec of Independence to be extended to black slaves (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness)
The threat of slavery came not from the South but from the idea of popular sovereignty. Only the power of the Federal Government could put an end to this moral wrong
If a state decides not to have slavery then the Supreme Court could not force this on them. ‘The people have the lawful means to introduce or exclude it as they please’
A house divided against itself cannot stand, I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free’
He believed that if you left it to the states they would actually decide to be free states so he did not foresee any possibility that slavery could be extended.
Said Douglas was conspiring to extend slavery into free states
He would interfere with slavery in the states where it already existed
Constitution leaves it open for states to decide most things for themselves. Popular sovereignty – power should be located locally, self-government should reflect the wishes of the people.
FFs did not intend for such rights to be extended to slaves, this was not the intention of the FFs. Pointed out that many of the FFs were themselves slave owners
Seeking to identify this as an issue of morality
N.B. He remained opposed to the idea of full social/political equality (therefore at this stage he was not an egalitarian) "I am not nor ever have been in favour of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people’’

11. How significant was the Lincoln-Douglas debates
Not very
Very
Issue of Douglas’ ST and LT goals
How significant was the Lincoln-Douglas debates

12. Said Douglas was conspiring to extend slavery into free states
Constitution allows for same rights provided in the Dec of Independence to be extended to black slaves (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness)
If a state decides not to have slavery then the Supreme Court could not force this on them. ‘The people have the lawful means to introduce or exclude it as they please’
A house divided against itself cannot stand, I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free’
The threat of slavery came not from the South but from the idea of popular sovereignty. Only the power of the Federal Government could put an end to this moral wrong
Said Douglas was conspiring to extend slavery into free states
FFs did not intend for such rights to be extended to slaves, this was not the intention of the FFs. Pointed out that many of the FFs were themselves slave owners
He believed that if you left it to the states they would actually decide to be free states so he did not foresee any possibility that slavery could be extended.
Seeking to identify this as an issue of morality
He would interfere with slavery in the states where it already existed
FF = founding fathers
Constitution leaves it open for states to decide most things for themselves. Popular sovereignty – power should be located locally, self-government should reflect the wishes of the people.
N.B. He remained opposed to the idea of full social/political equality (therefore at this stage he was not an egalitarian) "I am not nor ever have been in favour of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people’’