1. Business Reading homework due Dred Scott Amistad
What was the decision?
Amistad

2. Causes of the Civil War
(long and short term)

3. What events led to the division of the country?
How did Lincoln come to office?
Election of 1860

4. Video In your notebooks: What caused the Civil War?
How did Lincoln and his election in 1860 lead to war?

5. The Problem in Kansas Lecompton Constitution Senator Stephen Douglas
Proslavery Kansas constitution allowing slavery
Supported by president
Senator Stephen Douglas
Democrat- didn’t like or support president
But supported popular sovereignty
Opposed constitution
Kansas rejected it, Democrats blamed Douglas

6. Douglas’ Illinois US Senate seat, 1855
Republican: Abraham Lincoln
Lawyer, former IL senator
Honesty, hard work, funny
Lincoln opposed Kansas- Nebraska Act
Not an abolitionist
Chosen to oppose Douglas- debated across Illinois

7. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Do not want war or racial equality
Slavery is wrong
Slavery should not be spread to new territory
Douglas:
Republicans are dangerous radicals
They are abolitionists, want equality
Allowing slavery does not mean there will be slavery

8. Freeport Doctrine
Could people ban slavery before territory was a state?
Douglas’ answer: The Freeport Doctrine- the people decide
Popular sovereignty works (even with Dred Scott decision)
Douglas elected to Senate in 1855
Lincoln gained support

9. Presidential Election of 1860
Democrats divided between North and South
North- Douglas
South- Breckinridge
Republicans- Lincoln
4th party- Constitutional Unionists
Border states, didn’t want war
Lincoln elected president
Angered, worried South

10. Secession Crisis,
Within days of Lincoln’s election, South Carolina debated secession (to secede, leave)
Voted to leave, others followed
Why?
Southern regionalism- loyalty to institution of slavery, way of life
States’ rights- states can cancel Constitution / laws

11. Causes of the Civil War Consider statements
Choose two, explain in full sentences
Make own statement, explain in full sentences