Road to Secession 1854-1861

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Road to Secession 1854-1861
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Standards and Essential Question

• SSUSH 9 The student will identify key events,
  issues, and individuals relating to the causes,
  course and consequences of the Civil War
• Essential question Why did the election of
  Abraham Lincoln begin secession?

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The Election of 1860

• Democrats
• Stephen A. Douglas
• Repudiate the Freeport Doctrine
• Herschel Johnson
• John Breckinridge
• Joseph Lane
• Republicans
• Abraham Lincoln
• Hannibal Hamlin
• Constitutional Union Party
• John Bell
• Edward Everett

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Stephen Douglas
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Abraham Lincoln
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Beginning of Secession
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The beginning of secession

• South Carolina leaves the Union
• GA, AL, FL, MS, LA, TX
• Approving secession ordinances
• Buffer states attempt to force compromise
• President Buchanan
• John Floyd

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The Union Confederacy in 1861
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Attempts at compromise

• Crittendens Compromise Plan of 1861
• John J. Crittenden
• President-elect Lincoln rejects
• Former President John Tyler
• Washington peace conference
• Lincolns slavery amendment

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The Confederate States of America

• A new government?
• The first Presidency
• Jefferson Davis
• Alexander Stephens

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The Leaders of the Confederacy
Pres. Jefferson Davis
VP Alexander Stevens
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Confederate Cabinet
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The Confederate White House
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The Confederate Seal
MOTTO ? With God As Our Vindicator
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Grim Realities
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Rating the North the South
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Resources North the South
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Railroad Lines, 1860
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Slave/Free States Population, 1861
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Lincolns administration

• His cabinet
• Sec. Of State-William Seward
• Sec. Of Treasury-Samuel P. Chase
• Sec. Of War-Edwin Stanton

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Confederate President Jefferson Davis
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Inauguration of President Davis
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The first shots of the war

• Reluctance on both sides
• Re-supplying Fort Sumter
• Fort Sumter surrenders
• Border states take sides
• VA, NC, TN AK
• New confederate capital-Richmond, VA.
• MD, KY MS
• West Virginia
• preserve the Union and not abolish slavery
• Slaves as contraband
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Union Troops
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Preparing for war
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The first shots firedFort Sumter