GR 7 - SS- CH 16 - Lesson 3

Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky

He suggested a series of amendments to the Contitution. They included a protection for slavery south of 36 30 N latitude - the line set by the Missouri Compromise - in all territories "now held or hereafter acquired". Republicans rejected or refused to accept the suggestion.

South Carolina secede from the Union

What did South Carolina do after Lincoln won?

Fort Sumter, a U.S. fort on an island guarding Charleston Harbor. The fort was low on supplies and the Confederates demanded its surrender. Lincoln sent word to Governor Francis Pickens of South Carolina that he was sending an unarmed group to the fort with supplies. Jefferson Davis ordered his forces to attack Fort Sumter before the Union supplies could arrived. The Union surrendered the Fort. With the loss of Fort Sumter, Lincoln decided he had to act. Heissued a call for troops. Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas joined the confederacy. The Civil War had begun.

What did the attack on Fort Sumter signify?

Southerners used states' rights to justify secession. Each state argued had voluntarily chosen to enter the Union. They defined the Constitution as a contract among the independent states. They believed he national government had broken the contract by refusing to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and by denying Southern states equal rights in the territories. As a result, Southerners argued, the states had a right to leave the Union

What role did the idea of states' right play in the Civil War?

Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, and Arkansas

What states have not yet seceded but are slave states?

He wanted to preserve the Union. He could not allow secession. He vowed to hold federal property in the South and to enforce the law of the United States

What was Lincoln's priority after he took office in 1861?

Candidates: Issue on slavery split the Democratic party 1) Northern Democrats supported popular sovereignty - Stephen Douglas 2) Southern democrats vowed to uphold slavery - John C. Breckinridge 3) Moderates from the North and South formed the Constitutional Union Party. Took no position of slavery - John Bell 4) Republicans nominated Abrahan Lincoln. They wanted to leave slavery alone where it existed but also to ban it in the territories Lincoln won

What was the importance of the 1860 election?

states' rights

Southerners used _________ to justify secession. Each state argued had voluntarily chosen to enter the Union. They defined the Constitution as a contract among the independent states. They believed he national government had broken the contract by refusing to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and by denying Southern states equal rights in the territories. As a result, Southerners argued, the states had a right to leave the Union

Confederate State of America

Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia joined South carolina and seceded. delegates from these states met to form a new nation. Calling themselves _________________. They chose Jefferson Davis as their president

He wanted to prevent war

Why did Lincoln decide not to send armed troops to Fort Sumter?

South Carolina secede the Union

who was the first state that seceded from the Union?

secession

withdrawal