Pre-War Politics

Pre-WarPolitics

The Republican Party Forms

• created when the Whigs split apart• gained strength in the North

Dred scott v. Sandford

• Scott was a slave in Missouri and moved with his owner to non-slave territory•when the owner died, he sued for his freedom claiming he had been free in that territory

• Chief Justice Roger Taney said he was not a US citizen and that the Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional

Lincoln-douglas debates

• the two men addressed the most popular issue: slavery• Lincoln believed it was morally and politically wrong and should not be expanded•Douglas believed in popular sovereignty

• Lincoln gained popularity

John Brown at Harper’s Ferry

•wanted to inspire slaves to revolt• captured an arsenal but no slaves joined him

• captured and hanged for murder and treason

Election of 1860

• Lincoln won•white Southerners did not trust him and thought he would ban slavery

Southern States secede

• SC became the first to leave the Union• other deep south states followed soon after•NC: 2nd to last in May 1861

• the states met and formed the Confederate States of America• Jefferson Davis would be president

Kbye!