The House Divided
Although many compromises had been reached over the issue of slavery
What is none had ever resolved the issue?
The main concern was whether slavery would be allowed to spread into these territories.
What is the West?
The issue of slavery caused a split in this Party.
What is the Democratic Party?
Abraham Lincoln was the winner of the election. This result was partly thanks to this reason.
What is the unity of the Republican Party?
In March of 1861, President Lincoln repeated that he had no plans to interfere with the institution of slavery here.
What are in states where it was already legal?
The new political party that had been founded with a mission of opposing slavery
What is the Republican Party?
The Republican Party chose him as their presidential candidate. Although many in the Republican Party wanted slavery to end, the party took a pragmatic approach to the election.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In the North, the Democratic Party selected him Lincoln’s old rival as its candidate.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
Lincoln’s campaign had aimed to keep the party and its supporters together. This was especially important because they knew that particular problem meant that neither Northern nor Southern Democrats would have enough support to win the election.
What is the split in the Democratic Party?
He became the first president of the Confederate States of America?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
After Abraham Lincoln became president in 1861 and he immediately faced with this challenge.
What is preserving the Union?
.Lincoln did not run as an abolitionist. Instead, Lincoln and the Republicans guaranteed that slavery would continue in these states. where it currently existed, but they also promised to keep slavery out of the territories
What is where it currently existed?
Democrats in the South rejected the Stephen A. Douglas platform that let territories decide for themselves to allow slavery or not nominated their own candidate,
Who is John C. Breckinridge?
The Northern states were divided between these 2 candidates.
Who are Lincoln and Douglas?
This was the 1st state to secede.
What is South Carolina?
By the 1850s, the slavery debate had reached a crisis point. Conflict between abolitionists and supporters of slavery had erupted here.
What is Kansas?
Although Lincoln said that Slavery could continue where it currently existed but he promised to keep it out of here.
What are the territories?
The Constitutional Union Party and this candidate avoided the issue of slavery entirely
Who is John Bell?
The Southern states were divided between these 2 candidates.
Who are Breckinridge and Bell?
Although the secessionist movement was not as popular in Louisiana, this event ultimately made it happen.
What is that Abraham Lincoln would become the next president?
On the eve of the presidential election of 1860, it was not certain that the United States could survive without addressing this crisis.
What is Slavery?
How Lincoln describes the ultimate reason the issue of slavery needed to be resolved.
What is “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”?
To Southerners, they were the final defense for the institution of slavery
What are their state governments?
He was not even on the ballot in the Southern states that would later secede. He had virtually no support among whites in the South.
Who is Lincoln?
Governor Moore had these seized.
What is the federal arsenal in the state, the barracks at Baton Rouge and the New Orleans branch of the United States Mint?