1. Chapter 16 Lesson 5 A Nation Divides

2. The Election of 1860

3. Candidates Republican –Abraham Lincoln Northern Democrat –Stephen Douglas Constitutional Union –John Bell Southern Democrat –John Breckenridge

4. Results Abraham Lincoln becomes our 16 th President with 38% of the vote 10 of the southern states don’t even have Lincoln on the ballot Southern states did not want any more compromise “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.” Abraham Lincoln.

5. Secession South Carolina left U.S. on Dec. 20, 1860 By Feb. 1861 these states followed: –Alabama –Florida –Georgia –Louisiana –Mississippi –Texas “The people of the South don’t know what they are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.” William Tecumseh Sherman, after South Carolina secedes from the Union.

6. Confederate States of America President – Jefferson Davis of Mississippi While it was illegal for states to simply leave the Union, Lincoln said there would be no war unless the South started it.

7. War Begins Confederates begin seizing Federal forts, post offices, and other federal buildings in the South. By April, the Union held only 3 forts, including Ft. Sumter in Charlestown, South Carolina.

8. Attack on Ft. Sumter

9. President Lincoln attempted to resupply the fort, promised South he wouldn’t send troops Confederates attacked on April 11 th, 1861 Major Robert Anderson surrendered on April 13th

10. Ft. Sumter

11. “It seemed impossible to escape suffocation. The roaring and crackling of the flames, the dense masses of whirling smoke, the bursting of enemy shells, and our own which were exploding in the burning rooms, the crashing of the shot, and the sound of masonry falling in every direction, made the fort a pandemonium.” Cpt. Abner Doubleday at Ft. Sumter.