1. Read Pages 164 165 (Starting with Lincoln Is Elected President )

Election of 1860 (Antebellum in Review)

1. Read pages 164 – 165 (starting with “Lincoln is Elected President”)

2. Pick a historical figure (person)…

Historical figures  Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 145)  Henry Clay (p. 157)  William Lloyd Garrison (p. 145)  Harriet Tubman (p. 158)  Frederick Douglass (p. 146)  Harriet Beecher Stowe (p. 158)  Nat Turner (p. 146)  Franklin Pierce (p. 161)  House slave (p. 146) You may also need to  James Buchanan (p. 162) look at the other books  Dred Scott (pp. 162-163 & 166-167)  Field slave (p. 146) You may also need to  Chief Justice Roger Taney (pp. 166-167) look at the other books  Stephen Douglas (pp. 158, 160, 163-164)  Southern plantation owner (p. 146)  Abraham Lincoln (pp. 163-164)  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (p. 148)  John Brown (pp. 163-164)  Sojourner Truth (p. 149)  Jefferson Davis (p. 165)

3. Then, write at least a one page hand-written description, in first person, of the historical figure including who they are, why they are important and which presidential candidate they would have supported.

Election of 1860 Presidential Candidates

Presidential Political Party Who supported this What was their stance on slavery? Candidate candidate? Abraham Lincoln Republicans Northerns Slavery is wrong and should not be expanded, though Lincoln would not interfere with Southern slavery.

Stephen Douglas Democrats Northern Democrats Believed in “popular sovereignty”—let the people of the new states and territories decide.

John C. Democrats Southern Believed in the expansion of Breckenridge Democrats slavery across the entire United States.

John Bell Constitutional Former Know- Pro-slavery and pro-Union: Union Party Nothings and supported slavery but also Whigs (political supported the United States parties) government (would not secede). 1. What region supported Abraham Lincoln? John C. Breckenridge?

2. Which candidate had the best representation in both the North and the South?

3. By voting for Lincoln, what were many northerners saying about their stance on slavery?

4. By voting for Breckenridge (and not even including Lincoln on the ballot), what were many southerners saying about their stance on slavery?