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Warm-Up 9/9/15

Secession & Civil War

Yes, take notes.

It’s

1860

• Large cities. New York, Boston, and other major cities tripled or even quadrupled in size from 1820 to 1860 as people left their farms to find work in the cities.

• Semipro organized baseball clubs had sprung up all over New York. First officially organized baseball game played in California was in 1860

• Professional football began in Germany

The North – New York City 1860

1860

• Most states had free public schools• Higher education became possible for women,

but they were still expected to marry and stay at home with their children.

• John Brown had just been hanged in December of ‘59 for his raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

The South - Charleston, SC 1860

The West - Nevada in 1860

• First white settlement in Idaho

• The Pony Express begins its first run

• Wiyot Massacre: 80 to 250 Wiyot people were killed on Indian Island, near Eureka, California.

Abraham Lincoln is selected as the U.S.

presidential candidate for the Republican Party.

Lincoln won!

4 candidates; 3 from the

South, just 1 from the

North. Lincoln was not even

on the ballot in the South!

The election of 1860

When a political party or belief has more than one candidate, it splits the vote and often allows the rival party or belief to win the election.

The vote for Abraham Lincoln was mostly a vote for moderation toward the issue of slavery and a vote for the Union.

However, the South felt it no longer had a voice in the national government and did not see how it could remain in the Union.

At a state convention held six weeks after Election Day, South Carolina legislators voted to secede.

It was a unanimous vote.

South Carolina was the first southern state to leave the Union.

X

Secession

Outgoing President Buchanan publicly condemned South

Carolina’s action.

However, he did not use force to prevent it.

Within weeks, six other Southern states followed South Carolina.

First States to SecedeSo. CarolinaDec. 20, 1860

MississippiJan. 9, 1861

FloridaJan. 10, 1861

AlabamaJan. 11, 1861

GeorgiaJan.19, 1861

LouisianaJan 26, 1861

These were all

before Lincoln

even took

office!

The others seceded: TexasMarch 2, 1861

VirginiaApril 17, 1861

ArkansasMay 6, 1861

North CarolinaMay 20, 1861

TennesseeJune 8, 1861

West Virginia FormedJune, 1863

Virginia split into TWO STATES…

West Virginia stayed with the Union (even though they were still a slave state)

Border States: States who wanted slavery, but didn’t want to leave the Union.

Should states be allowed to secede if they want to?

Thesis 1: YesThesis 2: No

because….