1. Abraham Lincoln Rise to Election

2. Early Life  “It is great folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. It can all be condensed into a simple sentence…’the short and simple annals of the poor.’ That’s my life, and that’s all you can make of it.” - Abe Lincoln

3. Nancy Hanks Lincoln- mother

4. Sarah Bush Lincoln- stepmother

5. Early Life  Born in Kentucky  Moved with his family to Indiana and then Illinois  Went to school for about one year  Learned to read and write  Loved to read  Educated himself

6. Unlucky in love Abraham Lincoln bids farewell to Ann Rutledge

7. Mary Owens

8. Mary Todd

9. Marriage  Abe and Mary were married in 1842 after a long courtship

10. Early career  1832 enlisted in the Illinois state militia to help fight the Black Hawk War.  Trained and drilled as a Captain  Never saw any action  In 1834 at age 25 was elected to the Illinois state legislature.  While in the legislature Lincoln studied to become a lawyer.

11. Family Grows

12. Family Shrinks

13. Illinois Politics In 1846 Lincoln served as a member of the House of Representatives as a member of the Whig Party

14. Republican Party  Kansas-Nebraska Act benefitted the South  It split Northerners  Northerners who hated it formed the Republican Party  The Republican Party was based on one main goal: Keeping slavery out of new territories.

15.  The Spirit of seventy-six and the spirit of Nebraska, are utter antagonisms…little by little … we have been giving up the old for the new faith. Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for some men to enslave others is a “sacred right of self-government.” These principles cannot stand together…Our republican robe is soiled, and trailed in the dust. Let us repurify it… let us re-adopt it…let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it… If we do this, we shall not only save the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of saving.  Abraham Lincoln October 16, 1854, Peoria, Illinois  Quoted in Battle Cry of Freedom page 129

16. Lincoln-Douglas Debate 1858: Abe Lincoln ran for one of Illinois’ Senate seats He ran against Stephen Douglas

17. Lincoln-Douglas Debate Stephen Douglas was a Democrat who wanted to compromise with the South

18. Lincoln-Douglas Debate Lincoln opposed the expansion of slavery in any way. Douglas favored letting people decide using Popular Sovereignty

19. Lincoln-Douglas Debate  Results……. Douglas won the election and became Illinois’ Senator  Douglas’ arguments made him unpopular in the South.  Lincoln was already unpopular in the South  Lincoln is thrust in the national spotlight

20. Presidential Election of 1860  Democrats were divided  Southern Democrats wanted to protect slavery in the new territories  Northern Democrats (including Douglas) wanted to stick to Popular Sovereignty

21. Presidential Election of 1860  Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln  Constitutional Union party nominated John Bell  Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas  Southern Democrats nominated John Breckinridge

23. Southern Reaction to Lincoln’s Election  Southerners feared Northern aggression  Feared Northern majority in congress (18 free states to 15 slave states)  Feared that Abraham Lincoln would free all the slaves.  Southern states secede from the union

24. Secession  the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, esp. a political state

25. Secession  South Carolina seceded first (even before Lincoln took office)  Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas follow.

26. Secession

27. Fort Sumter

28.  Once South Carolina secedes from the Union, Fort Sumter is now a United States fort in the Confederate States of America (enemy territory)  Confederate leaders tell the US Army to surrender Fort Sumter  US Army refuses

29. Fort Sumter

30. Fort Sumter—April 12, 1861