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Page 1: Election of 1860 – Dividing Virginia. Who were the major candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1860? How were Richmond, Alexandria, and

Election of 1860 – Dividing Virginia

Page 2: Election of 1860 – Dividing Virginia. Who were the major candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1860? How were Richmond, Alexandria, and

• Who were the major candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1860?

• How were Richmond, Alexandria, and Winchester different?

• How were regional differences reflected in the election returns?

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Ann: How about the second question? Elaborate on what kind of difference we're talking about?
Page 3: Election of 1860 – Dividing Virginia. Who were the major candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1860? How were Richmond, Alexandria, and

Abraham Lincoln

Stephen A. Douglas

John Bell

John Breckinridge

Page 4: Election of 1860 – Dividing Virginia. Who were the major candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1860? How were Richmond, Alexandria, and

Abraham Lincoln

State: Illinois

Born: 1809

Vice presidential running mate:

Hannibal Hamlin, a United States senator from Maine

Republican Party Candidate

Party Platform•Antislavery, but promised to protect slavery in the South•Denounced proposals to reopen the African slave trade•Supported safeguards for the rights of immigrants•Advocated construction of a transcontinental railroad and other internal improvements•Declared the Union must be preserved

Page 5: Election of 1860 – Dividing Virginia. Who were the major candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1860? How were Richmond, Alexandria, and

Stephen Arnold Douglas

State: Illinois

Born: 1813

Vice presidential running mate:

Herschel V. Johnson, formerly governor of  Georgia

“Northern” Democratic Party Candidate

Party Platform•Douglas proposed a policy of popular sovereignty to allow voters in a territory to decide whether slavery would be legal there. •Affirmed the right of the Supreme Court to determine Congress's constitutional power over slavery in the territories•Called for the acquisition of Cuba •Advocated construction of a transcontinental railroad

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Ann: Put periods after each one of these platform planks throughout or just after the whole sentence in this entry?
Page 6: Election of 1860 – Dividing Virginia. Who were the major candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1860? How were Richmond, Alexandria, and

John Cabell Breckinridge

State: Kentucky

Born: 1821

Vice presidential running mate:

Joseph Lane, represented the Oregon Territory in the United States House of Representatives

“Southern” Democratic Party Candidate

Party Platform•Advocated the expansion of slavery into the territories and strong enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 •Affirmed the right of the federal government to protect the rights of slaveholders in the states and territories •Called for the annexation of Cuba •Advocated the construction of a transcontinental railroad

Page 7: Election of 1860 – Dividing Virginia. Who were the major candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1860? How were Richmond, Alexandria, and

John Bell

State: Tennessee

Born: 1796

Vice presidential running mate:

Edward Everett, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts

Constitutional Union Party Candidate

Party Platform•Preserve the Union: the primacy of the Constitution, the Union, and the laws

Page 8: Election of 1860 – Dividing Virginia. Who were the major candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1860? How were Richmond, Alexandria, and

•Richmond

•Winchester

•Alexandria

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Ann et al.: Put Alexandria on this one, too?
Page 9: Election of 1860 – Dividing Virginia. Who were the major candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1860? How were Richmond, Alexandria, and

Think about it

• How does the author view the Union? List words that the author uses to support your answer.

• What place does Virginia have in the Union according to each author?

• How will a vote for each author’s favored candidate affect the future of the Union?

Page 10: Election of 1860 – Dividing Virginia. Who were the major candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1860? How were Richmond, Alexandria, and

• Was your prediction of each region’s presidential support accurate?

• Do you think voters in Richmond or Winchester were looking to secede in November 1860?

Page 11: Election of 1860 – Dividing Virginia. Who were the major candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1860? How were Richmond, Alexandria, and

•Richmond

•Alexandria

•Winchester


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