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