1. Election of 1860

2. 8-4.3
Analyze key issues that led to South Carolina’s secession from the Union, including the nullification controversy and John C. Calhoun, the extension of slavery and the compromises over westward expansion, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, and the election of 1860.

3. SLM – Unit
EQ: How did the election of 1860 impact SC and the nation? Vocabulary/People: Election of 1860 Abolitionist

4. He was not an abolitionist!
Event
Election of 1860
Issue
Abraham Lincoln ran as the Republican candidate on a platform of “free soil”
Free Soil – idea that slavery should not be allowed to the new territories
Lincoln did not support an end to slavery at this time
- ONLY the end of the expansion of slavery
He was not an abolitionist!

5. Result & Significance:
Lincoln did not win a majority of the popular votes - but he got more votes than any other candidate.
Lincoln won with
Electoral votes
From the North.
Southern &
Border states
Split their votes
Among several
Candidates.

6. Lincoln received no votes from the South where he was not even allowed on the ballots in ten states.
• He won the election in the electoral college.

7. The worst fears of the South had come true – a president who openly opposed the expansion of slavery had been elected.