The 1850's, Campaigns and Elections

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The 1850's, Campaigns and Elections

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The 1850's, Campaigns and Elections

• Discontent in the South
• Discontent in the North
• Elections 1825-1860

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Discontent in the South

• Compromise of 1850
• Publication of Uncle Toms Cabin
• Birth of the Republican Party

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Compromise of 1850

• Said that all states should be able to choose
  whether or not to have slaves

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Publication of Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet
Beecher Stowe
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Birth of the Republican Party

• March 20th, the Republican Party was born in a
  Ripon, Wisconsin schoolhouse.

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Discontent in the South

• Bleeding Kansas
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• John Browns Raid

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Bleeding Kansas

• Caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• 1858, Abraham Lincoln challenged United States
  Senator Stephen Douglass support of a law
  allowing slavery in free territory.

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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John Browns Raid

• October 16, 1859
• Harpers Ferry, VA

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Discontent in the North

• Ostend Manifesto
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Bleeding Kansas
• Sumner-Brooks incident

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Ostend Manifesto

• US tries to buy Cuba from Spain-1854

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Sumner-Brooks Incident
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Discontent in the North

• Dred Scott decision
• The influx of German and Irish immigrants
• Panic of 1857

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Dred Scott Decision

• 1846 Scott v. Sandford

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1852 Elections

• Decline of the Whig Party

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1856 Elections

• Rise of the Republican Party

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1856 Elections

• Know-Nothing Party

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1860 Elections

• Four Candidates

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1860 Elections

• Lincoln-Republican Party

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1860 Elections

• Douglas-Northern Democrats

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1860 Elections

• Breckinridge-Southern Democrats

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1860 Elections

• Bell-Constitutional Union

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Effects of the 1860 Elections
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• Secession of South Carolina and the Lower South

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1.) South Carolina-December, 1860 2.)
Georgia-January 29, 18613.) Mississippi-January
18614.) Texas-February 2, 1861

• Order of Secession

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Effects of the 1860 Elections

• Efforts at Compromise