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1860 Election: Will the Nation Break up?

1860 Election: Will the Nation Break up? . Republican . (Northern) Democrat. Abraham Lincoln . Stephen A. Douglas. Presidential Election of 1860. Constitutional Union . (Southern) Democrat. John Bell. John C. Breckinridge. Birth of the Republican Party, 1854. Northern Whigs.

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1860 Election: Will the Nation Break up?

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  1. 1860 Election: Will the Nation Break up?

  2. Republican (Northern) Democrat Abraham Lincoln Stephen A. Douglas Presidential Election of 1860 Constitutional Union (Southern) Democrat John Bell John C. Breckinridge

  3. Birth of the Republican Party, 1854 • Northern Whigs. • Northern Democrats. • Free-Soilers. • Know-Nothings. • Other miscellaneous opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

  4. Republicans • Platform: • Slavery will be excluded from only the new territories • Promised tariffs to protect American workers. • Homestead Act- granting free land to farmers in west. • Opposed Kansas-Nebraska Act

  5. (Northern) Democrats • Candidate: Stephen A. Douglas • Supported Popular Sovereignty • Supported Kansas-Nebraska Act

  6. (Southern) Democrats What’s a Fire Eater? • Candidate: John C. Breckinridge • Supported Slavery • Fire Eaters (Extreme Slave Supporter) • Broke away from Northern Democrats • Supported Dred Scott Decision

  7. Constitutional Union • Candidate: John Bell • Moderates from North and South • Didn’t like the Democrats or Republicans • Diehard former “Southern Whigs” and “Know Nothings.”

  8. Electoral College Votes

  9. Lincoln Wins Election (1860) Why you might ask? • Split between Democrats in the South • More populated North outvotes South. The South gets a President that they didn’t vote for.

  10. Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

  11. Crittenden Compromise:A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity Senator John J. Crittenden(Know-Nothing-KY)

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