CHAPTER 5 (CONTINUED)SECESSION AND CIVIL WAR

1860 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION *THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S

PLATFORM WAS TO DEFEND SLAVERY.

*THERE WERE 2 DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. *NORTHERN CANDIDATE: STEPHEN

DOUGLAS *SOUTHERN CANDIDATE: JOHN

BRECKINRIDGE

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE

*THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE : ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

HE WON THE ELECTION WITH 180 ELECTORAL VOTES, ALL FROM THE NORTH.

*THIS ELECTION SHOWED THAT THE U.S. WAS SPLIT ON SLAVERY.

SECESSION

*THE FIRST STATE TO SECEDE WAS SOUTH CAROLINA.

*MISSISSIPPI WAS THE SECOND STATE TO SECEDE.

*WAR BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH BEGAN IN 1861.

BATTLES IN MISSISSIPPI

THE NORTH FELT THAT IF THEY COULD CONTROL THE MS RIVER, THEY COULD WIN THE WAR

MANY BATTLES WERE FOUGHT OVER CONTROL OF THE RIVER

LIFE DURING THE WAR

MEN FOUGHT WOMEN MADE UNIFORMS AND

SERVED AS NURSES BECAUSE MEN WERE GONE, THERE

WAS A FEAR OF SLAVE REBELLION SIMPLE NECESSITIES OF LIFE

BECAME LUXURIES SUCH AS SALT, TEA, AND COFFEE.

THE END OF SLAVERY

*ONCE THE UNION OFFICERS ARRIVED IN MISSISSIPPI, SLAVES BEGAN TO FEEL SECURE AND FLEE.

*IN 1862, PRESIDENT LINCOLN ISSUED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLOMATION. SLAVERY DID NOT OFFICIALLY END UNTIL 1865 WITH THE 13TH AMENDMENT.

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