PPT-The Election of 1860 and Fort Sumter

The Election of 1860 and Fort Sumter JA SACCO The Democratic Party in the Election 1860 After John Browns Raid Democrats last hope for keeping nation together 1 st convention in Charleston SC Douglas seemed to be leading but nomination blocked by Buchanan and Southern Democrats. Who held the territory?. Ft. Sumter was federally owned, but located in South Carolina in Charleston Harbor. Major Robert Anderson was in control of the fort with federal (union) troops. March 5, 1861 Confederate officials demanded Anderson surrender. Today’s Essential Question: What were . the political parties, platforms, candidates, issues, and outcome in the election of . 1860?. Vocabulary. political party. – political group organized to gain political power by getting its members elected to office. “Opening Salvo” by Fergus M. Bordewich . Smithsonian. April 2011 pg 76. How would the United States resolve the clash between its founding ideals and slavery. The explosive answer came on April 12, 1861 when Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.. And Secession. Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860, was the . first step towards the outbreak of the Civil War. South Carolinians feared the victory of a Republican president would bring an end to slavery & seceded from the USA.  But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. . War . B. egins. South Carolina’s Declaration of Causes of Secession. 12/1860 South Carolina’s fire-eaters (pro-slavery extremists) passed an ordinance of secession, citing the following causes behind this decision:. The War Begins: 1860-1861. Election of 1860. Following the raid on Harper’s Ferry by John Brown and his execution, the nation was sharply polarized. Northern abolitionists considered Brown a martyr for the cause of abolitionism, while Southerners considered him a terrorist. This polarization spilled over into the 1860 Presidential Election. . 1861-1865. The regimental colors of the 19th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment were damaged in battle during the American Civil War.. 2. The Civil War. Who was involved? . #1 The Confederate States of America. 1860 Election. Library of Congress. 1860 Election. http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/walter.sargent/public.www/web 232/sumter page.html. 1860 Election. Red. – Lincoln. Yellow. – Bell. Blue. – Douglas. Today’s Essential Question: What were . the political parties, platforms, candidates, issues, and outcome in the election of . 1860?. Vocabulary. political party. – political group organized to gain political power by getting its members elected to office. Lincoln Elected President. November 6, 1860. Red – Lincoln. Yellow – Bell. Blue – Douglas. Green – Breckinridge. Purple – Non-Voting Territories. Lincoln Elected . President. In the 1860 presidential race, . Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. Confederacy. Nation formed by Southern states. Robert E. Lee. Confederate general, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Border States. Slave states that bordered states in which slavery was illegal. The 1850s: Road to Secession Compromise of 1850 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) So this is the lady who started the Civil War. -- Abraham Lincoln Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Sold 300,000 copies in Birth of the Republican Party, 1854. Northern Whigs.. Northern Democrats.. Free-. Soilers. .. Know-Nothings. . . (Political party from 1854-1856 who was against Germans and Irish Catholic immigrants who they felt were ruining America).