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Chapter 10 section 4. The Union Dissolves. Sec 4 The Union Dissolves. John Brown’s raid caused southerners to fear an African American uprising and blamed the Republicans The Democratic party couldn’t agree on a candidate for president in the 1860 election. Election of 1860. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 10 section 4The Union Dissolves
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Sec 4 The Union Dissolves John Brown’s raid caused southerners
to fear an African American uprising and blamed the Republicans
The Democratic party couldn’t agree on a candidate for president in the 1860 election
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Election of 1860 Northern Democrats chose Stephen
A. Douglas, Southern Democrats chose John C. Breckenridge
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The Republican candidate was Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln won the election and the South saw this as a victory for the abolitionists
See the electoral map on p. 341
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Lincoln’s Victory a Win for the Abilitionists?
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union the day after Lincoln was elected
By February 1861, six more states in the Lower South voted to secede
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What is this cartoon saying? See p. 342
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See p. 343 for another map
------ States that seceded before April 15,------ States that seceded after April 15,------ Union states that permitted slavery------ Union states that banned slavery ------ Territories
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Who were the Border States?
Maryland Kentucky Missouri Deleware
These are the states in yellow on the map.
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Formation of the CSA Seceding states met in
Montgomery, AL and on February 8, 1861, declared themselves to be the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was chosen as the president of the Confederacy
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The Civil War Begins In his inaugural
address Lincoln told seceding states he “would not interfere where slavery existed” but “the Union of these States is perpetual”
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Attempts at compromise Federal property was seized in the
states that had seceded, including arsenals and forts.
Amendments to the Constitution proposed in Congress:• Permit slavery where it already exists• Reinstate the Missouri Compromise• Known as “Crittenden’s Compromise”, it
never passed.
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Compromise fails President Jefferson Davis ordered an
attack on Fort Sumter as part of seizing all federal buildings in the South
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More states leave the Union
The upper South seceded after the firing on Fort Sumter starting with Virginia
The capitol of the confederacy was changed to Richmond, Virginia
“The time for compromise has now passed. The South is determined to…make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.” –Jefferson Davis
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Who were the Border States?
Maryland Kentucky Missouri Deleware