1860 Elections - For Lincoln

Question 1

How did people view Lincoln?

Answer 1

• ‘a poor white born in a slave state’
• ‘scum, spawned in prairie mud’

Question 2

Compromise between Buchanan and Lincoln 1860-1?

Answer 2

• Ideas from John Crittenden (Kentucky)
• Missouri Compromise line restored.
• Any attempt to prohibit slave holding in South or Washington DC would be stopped.
• Compensation given to masters of unrecovered runaway slaves.
• Personal liberty laws passed in Northern states repealed.
• Slavery introduced to Constitution by Constitutional amendment.

Question 3

Reactions to compromise?

Answer 3

• Rejected by Republicans
• Not enough for Southerners
• never put to US public

10th November 1860 South Carolina called a convention –> coined US Constitution a failed experiment.

Question 4

Why did the Compromise fail in 1860?

Answer 4

• Slavery not mentioned in constitution
• Lincoln believed they have ‘too much good sense and good temper to ruin the government’

Question 5

Majorities for secession?

Answer 5

• Louisiana 1,200
• Mississippi 5,000