1. Bellwork
According to Calhoun’s Compact Theory, who should be more powerful: the states or federal government?
What was the lasting effect of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry?

2. -Abraham Lincoln, 1st Inaugural Address
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow- countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war…You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it.”
-Abraham Lincoln, 1st Inaugural Address
March 4, 1861
What does Lincoln think his job is?
According to Lincoln, who will decide if there will be war?
After reading this, what do you think Lincoln’s ultimate goal is?

3. SC Articles of Secession
“ For years the North has nourished dark and insidious [evil] designs [ideas] against our independence.”
SC Articles of Secession
December 1860
4.What does the South think about the North?
5. How is this different from Abraham Lincoln’s perspective?

4. 8-4.4

5. I. Positions on Secession
Secede/Secession: when a region withdraws from one country and forms their own
Members of the Convention in 1860 voted unanimously to secede
Before Lincoln’s election, not everyone agreed. Why would this change their mind?
Lincoln was opposed to the expansion of slavery and Southerners didn’t trust him.

6. Unionists Cooperationists Against secession
Didn’t like the north but believed the Constitution would protect them
Cooperationists
Okay with secession ONLY if it was a last resort and other Southern states did as well.
Why did they want the support of other states?
Without the other states, SC would not be able to stand against the North

7. I. Positions on Secession
Secessionists
Also known as fire- eaters or radicals
Secession is the only answer
Events of the 1850s and the Election of Lincoln in persuaded most people to be secessionists

8. II. Secession Convention
When it was announced that Lincoln had won the presidency, SC legislature called for a convention to determine the relationship between SC and the Union
The “Union” is another name for the United States or America
Originally in Columbia, but rumors of small pox forced them to move to Charleston
Most Secessionists lived in Charleston
Adopted the Ordinance of Secession

9. III. Ordinance of Secession
Ordinance of Secession was a political document which declared SC independent from the USA and listed why.
As a Republican and free soiler, Lincoln was opposed to the expansion of slavery in the west
Southerners assumed they would soon make all slavery illegal
Federal government should not interfere with the decisions and freedoms of individual states (states rights)

10. III. Ordinance of Secession
6 other states followed before Lincoln’s inauguration in March 1861
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas