5.7: The Election of 1860 and Secession

Question 1

ELECTION OF 1860

Answer 1

• Democrats for Douglas from Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Republicans for Lincoln w/ Free Soil, tariff and internal improvement platform

Question 2

DEMOCRATS

Answer 2

• NORTHERN FACTION
• Douglas
• sovereignty to answer slavery question
• Fugitive Slave Act
• SOUTHERN FACTION
• Breckenridge
• slavery in new land to be protected by federal slave code

Question 3

RESULTS

Answer 3

• Lincoln won 40% popular vote but carried electoral vote
• didn’t get single Southern electoral vote
• South = threatened
• couldn’t win election even w/ all their power
• growing Northern political dominance
• DEC 1860: South Carolina seceded and 6 states followed
• Confederate States of America
• Congress proposed Crittenden Compromise to guarantee 36 30 line and to appease South

Question 4

CONFEDERATES

Answer 4

• Alabama, Texas, Florida etc.
• new Constitution: limited federal power, slavery = perpetual institution
• split division of whether South seceded over slavery or states’ rights
• Articles of Secession
• Texas = slavery
• South Carolina = states’ rights centered on slavery
• Mississipi = slavery
• Davis = President of Confederacy
• said nothing about slavery at Inauguration
• VP Stevens gave Cornerstone speech claiming foundation of Confederacy = white supremacy