Bell Ringer! • Why were sectional differences developing in the United States? – Economic conditions, geography and interests in each region varied • North – industrial economy • South – plantation economy • What is a political party? – organized group of people with at least roughly similar political aims and opinions – Disputes over slavery lead to the creation of new political parties
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Bell Ringer!• Why were sectional differences developing in the
United States?– Economic conditions, geography and interests in each region
varied• North – industrial economy• South – plantation economy
• What is a political party?– organized group of people with at least roughly similar
political aims and opinions– Disputes over slavery lead to the creation of new political
parties
Whigs Free Soil Party
Anti-Slavery Democrats
*Republican Party (1854)
opposed the spread of slavery into new territories
1856 Election
Fillmore – Know-Nothing party (received 22% of vote)
Fremont – Republican party (received 33% of vote)
Buchanan – Democratic party from PA (received 45% of vote) *WINNER!
White House here I come!
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
What were the main positions they held on slavery?Why were these debates important?http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/9815570D-7FA2-47CF-A713-8BF6B4E2F092
• ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ • “I believe this government cannot endure,
permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other”
Abraham Lincoln (1858), from first campaign speech running for US Senate