1. Section 4 - Lincoln’s Election and Southern Secession
Find Out:
Why the Democratic Party split in the election of 1860
The issues in the election of 1860
The secession of the Southern states from the Union
The Union’s response to secession

2. 1. What caused a split in the Democratic Party at their convention in Charleston, SC?
Democrats held convention to nominate candidate for President in Charleston, S.C. in April of 1860
No. and So. Democrats disagreed on issue of slavery in their platform regarding popular sovereignty
Northern Democrats won out causing 50 Southern delegates to walk out
Northern Democrats tried to nominate Stephen Douglas of Illinois
He couldn’t win enough votes

3. Political Parties Splinter cont.
Democrats gave up and decided to meet in
Baltimore in June of 1860
Couldn’t agree on candidate and Northern
Democrats nominated Douglas Southern Democrats nominated John Breckinridge of Kentucky (current VP) and supporter of slavery (2)
Republicans had already nominated Lincoln
John Bell ran for Constitutional Union Party
which formed to preserve Union (3)

4. 1860 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Republicans nominated Abe Lincoln while the Democrats split (3)
Lincoln won the 1860 election with less than half the popular vote and no Southern electoral votes
The Southern states were not happy
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI,
Washington, D.C. Negro boys admiring the Lincoln Memorial –from Library of Congress .

5. 1860 ELECTION RESULTS

6. 4. How did the Presidential election of 1860 become two different races? Who won
Lincoln and Douglas ran in the North and Breckenridge and bell ran in the South.

7. 5. Before the 1860 presidential election, many Southern states had warned that if Lincoln won, the Southern states would secede, or withdraw from the Union. Supporters of secession based their arguments on the idea of states’ rights, arguing that the states had voluntarily joined the Union and had the right to leave the Union as well.

8. SOUTHERN SECESSION
Lincoln’s victory in 1860 election convinced Southerners that they had to act quickly
South Carolina led the way, seceding from the union in December of 1860 (6)
Mississippi was next, then Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, & Texas (7)
Southern delegates met in February, 1861 and formed the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as President (8)
Southern states had now
dissolved their ties with the USA
Secession Exploded from Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs.

9. 10. Why did President Buchanan feel that Southern states had no right to secede?
Buchanan said the federal government, not states governments, was sovereign

10. Efforts to Compromise Fail
Some want compromise
John J. Crittenden proposed a compromise to extend the Missouri Compromise Line to the Pacific Ocean
Never passed Congress (11)
Lincoln took oath of office on March 4,1861
Told South he had no intention of abolishing slavery
Lincoln did not press the South