Chapter 12: Section 4

Chapter 12: Section 4 The Civil War is Coming

The Election of_____

• Around _____, people were still thinking that the nation was going to avoid a ________.

• When the year _____came around, the ____________ were still a national party.

The Democrats Divide

• The Democratic convention was scheduled to meet in ______________________.

• At this meeting, the southern delegates demanded support from the party for _________ __________________

• ___________ and other northerners rejected this idea.

• Many arguments followed and the north finally refused to adopt this policy. The delegates from the south __________________.

The Democrats Divide

• The great Democratic party was falling apart. • The ___________ Democrats who had left

this convention met in ________________. • There, they named their own _________,

Breckinridge, President of the United States.• He believed in protecting __________. • After this, the “__________” political parties

were no longer national.

Constitutional-Unionists and Republicans

• The ________________ party was made up of ___________ who feared the breakup of the Union if the __________ candidate was elected.

• They wanted to avoid the _________ issue entirely.

• Some people who carried this idea were ________of Tennessee and __________ of Massachusetts.

Constitutional-Unionists and Republicans

• The main opposition to the Democratic party was the _____________party.

• The Republicans were still waiting for some national appeal. They named one man who was the most ____________ in their party.

• Abraham Lincoln, nicknamed “_____________” was the man. He came from ________.

Honest Abe

• Abraham Lincoln and his family came from __________ to New England and then to Pennsylvania.

• His great-grandfather had lived in Virginia and had five sons.

• Abraham’s father was raised in ________ and in 1809, Lincoln was born.

• Lincoln was born in a __________. • Lincoln Movie!~

Honest Abe

• When he was only _______ years old, his family moved again to __________.

• When he was _________they moved again to _______. • He built a __________and navigated it down the Mississippi

to New Orleans. • He also worked as a ___________________________

_____________________________________________

Honest Abe

• Lincoln educated ______ and later became a _______. He was really successful in front of juries.

• He had one term in __________, after serving in the Illinois legislature. He opposed the Mexican War while in Congress.

• Lincoln had magic in his speech. He often used words from the _________.

Honest Abe

• Lincoln was firm on the slavery issue, but he was __________________.

• He married a Southerner and was from the South, so he ____________the South.

• If Abraham Lincoln couldn’t put the Union back together, no one could.

Lincoln is electedThe election of November

1860• Lincoln was deprived of all

_____________from 10 southern states.

• In the electoral college,– Lincoln carried all ______________– Breckinridge carried eleven slave

states– Douglas got popular votes in the

North but carried only Missouri and a minority of new jerseys split electoral vote

– John bell carried 3 border slave states

• Lincoln undoubtedly won in the electoral college, but took _____ of the popular vote

• His opponents had almost _________________votes• However, the votes Lincoln did get were from just the right

states.• When southern states heard of Lincoln’s election, they

_______ from the Union.

Attempts to prevent war• _______________ believed withdrawing from the Union would

be illegal, but he also thought the government should not be able to force a state to stay in the Union.

• __________________a Northern opponent, was happy to see the South remove itself from the Union

• ___________ a pacifist, would rather the states “go in peace” so as not start a war by demanding that they remain in the Union

• Desperate attempts were made at finding a ________ between sections.

• “___________________” were proposed by the senator of Kentucky which would push the _________between slavery and free soil to California, to keep the federal government from interfering with slavery in the states.

• _____________ refused, Lincoln believed this would only lead to the attempt to seize more southern territory to make more slave states.

• They wanted the North to stand strong and not give in to the southerners demands so as to discourage _______________

• Because the United States were considered a ____________by the confederate states of America, they could not keep its arsenals and forts inside the _________ of the seceded states

• U.S. troops mostly gave in, except for a few strong positions including _____________in the Charleston Harbor which was in serious need of food. Lincoln had a decision to make: either surrender Fort Sumter to the South, would mean no civil war and the end of the Union, or provide the supplies and put them at risk of a war to keep the states in “__________________”

• Determined to stand firm, Lincoln decides to __________Fort Sumter.

• After notifying South Carolina of his decision to send supplies over, Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard began ____________ Fort Sumter from the Charleston shore batteries on ________________.

• The fort was surrendered by Major Robert Anderson the next afternoon. This was the ___________________ of a war.