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Events Prior ToResults

Emergence of Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln’s Early Life

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EVENTS PRIOR TO

Compromise of 1850

Gadsden Purchase, 1853

Kansas- Nebraska Act,

1854

Bleeding Kansas, 1856

Lincoln- Douglas Debates, 1858

John Brown’s Raid, 1859

Republican

Convention

Results

WINNER!

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Vice President- Hannibal Hamlin

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln V. Douglas Debates

•Held during the 1858 campaign for the US senate seat for Illinois (state legislatures chose senator) •Seven sites throughout Illinois one in each of the congressional districts•Douglas was the senator already and was a contributor to the compromise of 1850 •Believed in popular sovereignty and was responsible for the KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT•Lincoln was an unknown and believed the Us could not survive as a half free state half slave state country• debates drew attention from all from entire nation •Lincoln lost senate race in 1858, but was a moral victory for Lincoln and gave him a lot of publicity

Lincoln as a Congressman

•Representative from Illinois•Elected rep. for the state house

of Representatives in 1834 •Unsuccessful as a Whig candidate

before his presidency in the House of Representatives

Abraham Lincoln•At the time was a respected state politician in Illinois•Attracted by Republicans because he was an elegant speaker, moderate position on slavery, and he would be a compatible opponent for Stephen Douglas• Campaign managers premised Lincoln voters patronage •Lincoln visited the South and preached the value of Union and warned against succession

Stephen Douglas

• Northern Democrats met in Baltimore, Maryland, and nominated Stephen Douglas

• Douglas lost much support after “Bleeding Kansas”

• He won back popularity by denouncing Buchanan and the Lecompton constitution in 1858

• Became member of the House of Reps in 1857

John Bell

• Served secretary of war under William Henry Harrison and John Tyler in 1841

• Resigned in protest of Tyler’s vetoes of the Whig bills• Returned to local politics and was elected to the

State House of Representatives and served until 1859

• Constitutional Union party for the election of 1860 was a desperate attempt to save the Whig Party which was collapsing

Compromise of 1850

• California was entered as a free state• New Mexico and Utah’s status would be

decided based on popular sovereignty • Texas lost the New Mexico territory but

received $10 million from the government • Slave trade in the District of Columbia was

abolished• New Fugitive Slave Act was passed

Gadsden Purchase of 1853

• Agreement between United States and Mexico in which the U.S agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico

• This territory later became Arizona and New Mexico

• Provided necessary land for a transcontinental railroad and tried to resolve conflicts from after the Mexican American War

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

• Allowed for people in Nebraska and Kansas to decide whether or not they wanted slavery within their borders

• Repealed the Missouri compromise of 1820• Made many people in the north angry who thought

that the Missouri Compromise was a “long standing biding agreement”

• Caused many pro-slavery and anti-slavery people to rush into Kansas and cause conflict with one another

Bleeding Kansas

• Time period between 1854 and 1858 where there was much violence in the Kansas territory over whether it would be slave or free

• Border issues occurred when the South tried to sway the people to the pro-slavery side

Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)

• Series of 7 debates between Abe Lincoln (republican) and Stephen Douglas (democrat) for a seat in the Illinois house senate

• Campaigning for their own parties to win control of the Illinois legislature

• Main issue discussed was slavery

John Brown’s Raid (1859)

• Placed men in military action to stop slavery• Went to a pro-slavery town and

“brutally killed” 5 of its residents• Convicted for treason and hanged

Republican Convention

• At first after the ballots, no candidate had a majority

• Many of the people there was Seward were telling people to swing their vote to Lincoln

• Ohio chairman changed the state’s votes• LINCOLN WINS