1. The Election of 1860 and Southern Secession
We’re Outta Here
The Election of 1860 and Southern Secession

2. Vocabulary
Secession (noun): the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent. -the secession of the Southern states. Union (noun) an act of joining two or more things together; a group of states or nations that are ruled by one government or that agree to work together

3. Vocabulary
Popular Sovereignty a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people;
As in the pre-Civil War doctrine asserting the right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether or not slavery would be permitted there.

4. Vocabulary
Confederacy a group of people, countries, organizations, etc., that are joined together in some activity or effort
the Confederacy : the group of 11 southern states that separated themselves from the U.S. during the American Civil War
a confederacy of native tribes.

5. Election of 1860 Republican Candidate: Abraham Lincoln
Democrats could not agree so they nominated two:
Stephen A Douglas in North
John Breckenridge in South

6. And the winner is…

7. After being elected
Lincoln said the South
had nothing to fear
because he would not
abolish slavery.

9. Secession No one believed him and States began to leave the Union
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Texas

10. Secession Southern States formed own country, Wrote a
constitution and elected
Jefferson Davis to be
President

11. Union Response
Rope Of Sand – Divided the United States would have no strength.
Secession was declared unconstitutional by the North.

12. Lincoln Lincoln’s response to secession –
He would not abolish slavery, but would also not give up U.S. Government Property.

13. March 4, 1861
With your partner: discuss, analyze and write a 50 word interpretation and response of two of the selections from Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Address in 1861.
“Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy.”

14. “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”
"May Congress prohibit slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress protect slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say.“
“Again: If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it--break it, so to speak--but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?”
   ”In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it be forced upon the national authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government”