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

Discontent in the South

•Compromise of 1850 •Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

•Birth of the Republican Party

Compromise of 1850

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

Publication of Uncle Tom’s

Cabin by Harriet

Beecher Stowe

Birth of the Republican Party

• March 20th, the

Republican Party was born in a

Ripon, Wisconsin

schoolhouse.

Discontent in the South

•Bleeding Kansas

•Lincoln-Douglas Debates

•John Brown’s Raid

Bleeding Kansas•Caused by

the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

•October 16, 1859

•Harper’s Ferry, VA

John Brown’s Raid

Discontent in the North

•Ostend Manifesto

•Kansas-Nebraska Act

•Bleeding Kansas

•Sumner-Brooks incident

Ostend Manifesto • US tries

to buy Cuba from Spain-1854

Sumner-Brooks Incident

Discontent in the North •Dred Scott decision •The influx of German and Irish immigrants

•Panic of 1857

Dred Scott Decision

•1846 – Scott v. Sandford

1852 Elections

•Decline of the Whig Party

1856 Elections•Rise of the Republican Party

1856 Elections•Know-Nothing Party

1860 Elections

•Four Candidates

1860 Elections•Lincoln-Republican Party

1860 Elections• Douglas-

Northern Democrats

1860 Elections•Breckinridge-Southern Democrats

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1860 Elections•Bell-Constitutional Union

Effects of the 1860 Elections

•Secession of South Carolina and the Lower South

•Order of Secession1.) South Carolina-December, 1860

2.) Georgia-January 29, 18613.) Mississippi-January 18614.) Texas-February 2, 1861

Effects of the 1860 Elections•Efforts at Compromise