● Election of Abraham Lincoln

● Lincoln Douglas Debates

● South secession

By: Natali Zamora, Alexis

Barela, & Nuvia lozano
 1858 race for the U.S senate in Illinois began

First debate

Lincoln ● Lincoln challenge Douglas in a series of debates on

Douglas Debate
slavery and territories.
● They both didn’t want slavery in there territories but
disagree on how to keep it out.
● Lincoln believed that slavery was immoral and
Douglas believed in popular sovereignty.
● People wouldn't give up slavery unless Congress
abolished slavery with a constitutional amendment

Second debate

● The Dred Scott law didn’t allow people to vote to

exclude slavery from there state.
● Douglas went around the Dred Scott and said to just
elect a representative who wouldn’t enforce slavery.
● Douglas won senate, Lincoln’s attack’s on the “vast
moral evil” of slavery drew national attention. Mainly
the north.
Lincoln ● The election of Lincoln took
place in 1860 where he was
Election nominated by republicans
● This event was important
because it had to do with their
president at the time
● Lincoln pledged to stop the
spread of slavery but he also
tried to reassure southerners
that he wouldn’t abolish slavery
● When Lincoln won it convinced
them that they had lost their
voice in the national government
 ● Southern states decided to act
Southern ● South Carolina left the union
○ December 20, 1860
Secession ● Mississippi left, followed by Florida,
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
● Secession states met in Montgomery,
Alabama and formed the Confederate States
● They protected and recognized slavery in
new territories.
● They elected Jefferson Davis as President
● People wondered if they north would allow
the south to leave without a fight.