APUSH 5.7 Election Of 1860 And Secession

election where slavery was the central issue, Abraham Lincoln (Republican) won over John Breckinridge (Democrat), and John Bell (Constitutional Union Party). Lincoln won 40% of popular vote, but won a large majority of electoral votes. Lincoln's victory leads the south to secede.

John Breckenridge, Stephen Douglas, John Bell, Abraham Lincoln

Southern Democrat (72 electoral), pro slavery

Northern Democrat (12 electoral), popular sovereignty

Constitutional Union (39 electoral), stay together at all costs

Abraham Lincoln (180 electoral), No slavery in new territories

Abraham Lincoln

South Carolina secedes from the Union

The Deep South as listed 2. Mississippi 3. Florida 4. Alabama 5. Georgia 6. Louisiana 7. Texas 8. Virginia 9. Arkansas 10. Tennessee 11. North Carolina

Confederate States of America formed

Jefferson Davis

A last-ditch effort to resolve the secession crisis. It proposed to bar the government from intervening in the states' decision of slavery, to restore the Missouri Compromise, and to guarantee protection of slavery below the line.

killed in the senate, disapproved by Lincoln

why the south seceded

slavery, states rights

slavery and white supremacy and Lincoln will end slavery

protect states rights each state joined, each state ca leave state first, federal government second states can govern themselves

President Jefferson Davis, February 1861

President Abraham Lincoln, March 1861