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Transcript of Abraham Lincoln’s Election & Fort Sumter Chapter 5, Lesson 4.
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Abraham Lincoln’s Election & Fort Sumter
Chapter 5, Lesson 4
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The Election of 1860
• Democratic Party candidate: Douglas
• Democratic Party south: Breckinridge
• Republican Party: LINCOLN
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Stephen A. Douglas
• West should decide for themselves about slavery.
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John Breckinridge
• Democratic candidate popular with southerners
• Government should allow slavery everywhere in the West.
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Abraham Lincoln
• Republican candidate
• Against the SPREAD of slavery
• Promised not to stop slavery in the South where it was already practiced.
• Said he hoped it would one day END there, too.
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Worried White Southerners
• Many in the South were afraid if Lincoln were elected, slavery would be outlawed.
• Some even said they would LEAVE the Union if Lincoln was elected.
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Lincoln Elected President
• November 6, 1860• December 20, 1860 South Carolina’s leaders
seceded from the Union.• Later SIX other southern states seceded:
– Mississippi– Florida– Alabama– Georgia– Louisiana– Texas
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The Confederate States of America
• South Carolina
• Mississippi
• Florida
• Louisiana
• Alabama
• Georgia
• Texas
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Fort Sumter
• Some advised Lincoln to “Let the states go”
• Others said, “Give in on the slavery question.”
• Still others said, “Use the ARMY to end their revolt!”
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Lincoln’s Choices
• He wanted to prevent war.
• “We are not enemies, but friends.”
THE VERY NEXT DAY
An important message came from Major Robert Anderson commander at Fort Sumter:
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Urgent!
• Message from Commander Anderson
Supplies at the Fort are almost gone. If new supplies are not sent soon, we will be forced to surrender the fort to the Confederacy.
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What to Do???
• If I send supplies…Southerners might attack.
• If I send troops….Southerners WILL attack.
• If I do nothing…the commander will have to surrender.
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Decision
• Lincoln decided to send supply ships
• And see what the Southerners would do
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Confederate President Davis
• Davis decided to take over the fort BEFORE the supply ships arrived.
• Demanded them to surrender.
• NEVER!
• The Confederate troops FIRED on the fort, Major Anderson and his men ran out of ammunition and had to give up.
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The Civil War has Begun!
• Lincoln called for Americans to join the army to stop the rebellion.
• Frightened southern states not in the Confederacy now joined with the other 7 states.
• Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina
• 11 States Strong