THE NATION SPLITS

IN TWO
Chapter 16.4

Election of 1860
Nominees:
1.Northern Democrats:
Stephen Douglas
2.Southern Democrats: John
Breckinridge
3.Constitutional Union: John
Bell
4.Republicans: Abraham
Lincoln

Election of
1860
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What do you think will
happen between Kentucky
and Virginia? Will they
support the North or the
South in the Civil War?

Election of President Lincoln

Northerners easily outvoted Southern Voters (remember, there is a
population difference!) and Abraham Lincoln was voted

The die is
cast-

o Southerners had decided to leave the Union if President Lincoln

would be elected

President Lincoln and

Secession
John Crittenden of Kentucky tried
to introduce a bill to Congress to
expand the Missouri Compromise
Line to the Pacific and proposed an
Amendment be added to keep all
slaves below the compromise line
Bill fails, as many Southerners had
felt that it didnt matter. They
believed Abraham Lincoln would be
against them and he was an
abolitionist

Secession
South Carolina Secedes first- December 20th, 1860
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas Secede by February 1861
These Southern States form the Confederate States of America and elect Jefferson Davis of
Mississippi as the president

Sam Houston, Texas Governor, was asked to swear allegiance to the Confederate States of America but
he refused.
The North would, move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a
mighty avalanche; andoverwhelm the South.

Civil War: Fort Sumter

South began to take control of Federal Forts
President Lincoln had to make a difficult decision: Risk a war by intervening and losing additional
slave states to secession or allow the Confederacy to leave the Union and make it okay to do
so.
Fort Sumter was one of the last federal buildings in South Carolina (remember, South Carolina was
no longer part of the United States) held by Union Soldiers.
April 11th, 1861 Confederate Soldiers asked for Fort Sumters surrender
Major Robert Anderson refuses and gunfire is exchanged
April 13th the fort falls to Confederate soldiers
War Begins