Platform – a political party’s statements or beliefs. Secede – to withdraw from the Union. Confederate States of America – created in February 1861 in.
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Platform – a political party’s statements or beliefs.
Secede – to withdraw from the Union.Confederate States of America – created in
February 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama from the states that seceded from the Union. (CSA)
Jefferson Davis – President of the Confederate States of America (CSA)
Crittenden Plan – planned amendments to the Constitution to protect slavery and appease the South.
Electoral CollegeSouthern votes can’t
compete with NorthSouth sees Northern
monopoly on presidency.
State’s Rights (p. 328)John C. Calhoun saw
that any state could protect its interests through nullification.
Cotton Production1800 - $5,000,000 = 7%1810 - $15,000,000 =
21%1840 - $63,000,0001860 - $191,000,000 =
57% of total exports.Nearly 4 million slavesEmancipation was a
burden to be born by the South only!
Economic & Social
Republican Platform:Slavery was to continue
in states where it already existed.
Limit the spread of slavery to the western territories.
Election of 1860Lincoln is NOT on many
southern state ballots.Lincoln wins with 180
Electoral College votes
Southern ReactionElection of Lincoln is a
crime against the South and slavery.
Believe Republican agenda is to prohibit slavery throughout the U.S.
Build up state militias in response to Brown’s raid
December 20, 1860 – South Carolina secedes from the Union.
Declares that secession is unconstitutional.
Warns the South that the Union will use the military to preserve the Union.
Lincoln focuses on a small garrison in Charleston, SC as an example of Union resolve.
Following the video clip you will asked to:
List the first 7 states that seceded from the Union and name the president chosen to lead the Confederate States of America.
Explain the Northern Reaction to the secession of the Southern States.
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List the first 7 states that seceded from the Union and name the president chosen to lead the Confederate States of America.
Explain the Northern Reaction to the secession of the Southern States.
Inaugurated on March 4, 1861.
Encouraged Constitutional Amendments for slavery.
Condemned the Southern right to secede.
Vowed to protect Federal property.
Promised to not attack the South first.
“In your hands, not in mine, is the momentous occasion of civil war.”
After the video clip, use what you have seen and your books to answer the following:
According to his first inaugural address, how was Abraham Lincoln planning to deal with the secession of the Southern states?
According to his first inaugural address, how was Abraham Lincoln planning to deal with the secession of the Southern states?
“Hold, occupy and possess” all Federal property in Confederate territory.
Resupply Fort Sumter with food and supplies.
Lincoln’s Plan
Sumter commanded by Maj. Robert Anderson
68 soldiersRefuse to evacuate.Lincoln announces he
is to run supplies to the fort.
Determined to fly “Old Glory” over Sumter.
U.S. flag over Sumter is offensive to SC and Confederacy.
SC tries to negotiate with the Union to evacuate Sumter.
Negotiations fail and P.G.T. Beauregard is ordered to open fire on Sumter.
South
Jefferson Davis gave orders to bombard the fort into submission.
At 4:30 a.m. Confederate guns open fire on Sumter
After 36-hour cannonade, Major Anderson lowers the flag
No casualties!Visible symbol that the
war had begun
Hysterical wave of emotion sweeps across the U.S.
Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to defeat the “combinations too powerful to be suppressed” with peacetime government.
Upper South (VA, NC, TN, AR) secedes.
After the video clip, you will be asked to write on the following:
How was the attack on Fort Sumter important in bringing about the Civil War?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9p7V7GrHjE
Resources North South Effect
Population
22 million 5.5 million
Railroad 22,000 miles
9,000 miles
Factories 85% 15%
Cotton 2% 98%
Exports 85% 15%
1. The election of 1860 was significant because it showed that the South was losing its political power in the nation.
2. After the election of 1860, many southern states seceded from the Union to form the Constitutional States of America.
3. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
4. In his inaugural address, Lincoln promised to end slavery all over the South.
5. Fort Sumter, a federal outpost in Charleston, SC, was attacked by Confederate troops, beginning the Civil War.
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