1. Secession John M. Sacher University of Central Florida john.sacher@ucf.edu

3. Cotton is King 4.5 million bales 1860 Cotton is King 4.5 million bales 1860

4. King Cotton

5. Democrats 1860

6. Abraham Lincoln William Seward

7. Lincoln-Douglas Debates-1858

8. Republican Platform Slavery in the Territories  7. That the new dogma that the Constitution of its own force carries slavery into any or all of the territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy...  8. That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom... we deny the authority of congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.

9. Republican Platform Slavery in the States  4.... the right of each state, to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends, and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any state or territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.

10. Constitutional Union Party John Bell

11. 1860 Election

13. Southern Options  “What are we to do? Shall we remain quiet and wait to see [Lincoln] inaugurated, and develop his plan and policy or shall we anticipate what it will be, and act at once to take steps for our self-preservation? What shall these steps be? Shall we have a Southern Convention of the slaves states or will each state act by itself?”  B. H. Haynes (a La. Democrat) 10/13/1860

14. Spelling/Vocabulary Lesson  Secede—to withdraw from an organization, political entity or Union.  Secession—the act of withdrawing.  Succeed—to accomplish something desired or intended.  “Seceed” is not a word  In a sentence, “Fire Eaters hoped that southerners would succeed when they seceded from the Union.”

16. Slave Population—1860 SlavesTotal PopulationSlave % South Carolina 402,406 703,70857% Mississippi436,631 791,305 55% Louisiana331,726 708,00247% Alabama 435,080 964,20145% Georgia 462,198 1,057,28644% Florida 61,745 140,42444% North Carolina 331,059 992,62233% Virginia 490,865 1,596,318 31% Texas182,566 604,21530% Arkansas111,115 435,45026% Tennessee275,7191,109,80125% Kentucky225,4831,155,68420% Maryland 87,189 687,04913% Missouri 114,9311,182,01210% Delaware 1,798 112,216 2%

17. Anti-Secession Cartoon

18. Jefferson Davis

19. Confederate Government

20. Lincoln’s Inauguration

21. Ft. Sumter