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Ch.12 sec4 Jooa
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln ancestor
came from England
to America
born at Kentucky
no abolitionist
thought how to prevent
slavery spread
possible concession:
short of allowing
spread of slavery
didn't hate South
southern ancestry
elected
to President
by smallest proportion ever
Party
Constitutional-Union party
Whigs & Know-Nothings made
sought to avoid
the slavery issue
feared breakup of Union
if Republican elected
Republican
main opposition
to Democrats
purpose
opposing the spread of slavery
candidate
Abraham Lincoln
Democrats divide
reason
Southern delegates demand
party declare its support
for slavery
Northerners rejected
southern states withdrew
announced Confederate States of America
reaction
President Buchana
hoped storm broke
after his term
secession = illegal
government had no right
to compel state to remain
Northern abolitionist
glad
"sinful" South separate itself
Pacifists
let cotton states go
rather than war to pin thme
attempts to prevent war
unamendable amendments
extend 36̊ 30’ line
to California
from Missouri Compromise
Republicans refuse
want forbid slavery
even below 36̊ 30’ line
process
after Lincoln elected
state seceded
from Union
Mississippi
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
wrote new constitution
Process of starting war
background
Confederate States of America viewed U.S
as foreign nation
want remove
U.S. arsenals & forts
use own troops
to seize federal posts
U.S. gave up all
but a few strong position
ex) Fort Sumter
Lincoln's trouble
support or let Fort Sumter
need support
if it receive no food
soon it will have to surrender
if let south have it
no war
but end of Union
if send supplies
risk of star war
to keep all the state
inside on Union
south start war
why?
Lincoln notified South Carolina
he will send supplies
to Fort Sumter
south began bombarding
Fort Sumter
decided to take the fort