<p>Chapter 15: The Nation Breaking Apart (1846-1861) Name ______Date ______Hour ______</p><p>Section 4: Lincoln’s Election and Southern Secession</p><p>Main Idea: The Southern states secede after Lincoln is elected as president.</p><p>Why it matters now: This was the only time that states seceded from the U.S.</p><p>One American’s Story</p><p>1. What event was happening in Chicago in May, 1860? __Republican convention______</p><p>2. Who won the Republican nomination for president? ___Lincoln______</p><p>A. __POLITICAL PARTIES SPLINTER ______</p><p>1. What is a political platform? _what a political party believes about what is best for the nation____</p><p>2. What did Southern Democrats want? _for the party’s platform to support slavery ______What did Northern Democrats want? support popular sovereignty as way to decide slavery issue</p><p>3. Who did the Northern Democrats nominate for president? _Stephen Douglas______Who did the Southern Democrats nominate for president? __John Breckinridge______</p><p>4. Who was the fourth candidate for president? __John Bell______What political party did he belong to? _____Constitutional Union Party______</p><p>B. _THE ELECTION OF 1860 ______</p><p>1. Which candidate received the majority of votes in the North? (see map on p. 473) _Lincoln______How many states did he win? __17 ½ ______What was his position on slavery? (see above section) __opposed the expansion of slavery ___ __into the territories______</p><p>2. Which candidate received the majority of votes in the South? (see map on p. 473) __Breckinridge______How many states did he win? __11______What was his position on slavery? (see above section) __thought the federal government ____ _should be required to protect slavery in any territory______</p><p>3. Why did Lincoln win the 1860 election? _the North had a larger population than the South ____ (# of state’s electoral college votes = # of Senators + # in House of Rep.—based on population)</p><p>4. What did Lincoln say he would do about slavery in the South? _would not abolish it in the South How did white Southerners feel about him? _did not trust Lincoln to keep his word—they ______thought he and other Republicans would move to ban slavery altogether ______</p><p>5. How did white Southerners view the Republican victory in 1860? __a threat to their Southern ______way of life______Chapter 15: The Nation Breaking Apart (1846-1861)</p><p>C. _SOUTHERN STATES SECEDE ______</p><p>1. Supporters of states’ right argued _states’ rights would allow states that had voluntarily joined _ __the Union to decide if they wanted to leave it______</p><p>2. The first state to secede? ___South Carolina______Other states: __Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas______</p><p>3. Where were the above states located? _deep South—cotton growing states ______</p><p>4. Seceded states met in _Montgomery, Alabama______and formed the __Confederate States of America______. Their president: ___Jefferson Davis______</p><p>5. The Confederate Constitution was modeled on _U.S. Constitution______with the exceptions of __states rights______and __protection of slavery ______in any territories it might acquire.__.</p><p>D. _THE UNION RESPONDS TO SECESSION____ </p><p>Differing Viewpoints</p><p>South North</p><p> states could choose whether or not they  secession is unconstitutional—federal gov. wanted to belong to the U.S. sovereign over state governments</p><p> North was using their majority (larger pop.)  South did not want to live by the rules of to force the South to give up slavery democracy (the government—ruled by the people—should do what the majority of the people want)</p><p>E. _EFFORTS TO COMPROMISE FAIL______</p><p>1. In his First Inaugural Address, what did Lincoln assure the South? _he had no intention of ______abolishing slavery in the South______</p><p>2. Lincoln spoke forcefully against _secession______.</p><p>3. “We are not _enemies, but friends_.”</p><p>4. Lincoln wanted _no invasion of the South______but would not __abandon the federal _ _government’s property there (forts/military bases)__. Chapter 15: The Nation Breaking Apart (1846-1861) 5. _____Fort Sumter______in South Carolina was still in _Union______hands and would soon need _to be resupplied______.</p>