Harriet Tubman And The Underground Railroad

The controversy over slaves ultimately led to the secession. Abraham Lincoln thinks slavery is wrong and he wants to stop it from spreading. Earlier, he had warned that slavery could separate a nation. In the 1860 election Lincoln is elected, but southerners are worried he will end slavery forever. Southern states start to secede because they are worried. First South Carolina succeeds, then North, Texas, and then Florida too. They give themselves a new name called the Confederate States of America. (Wise...)

　　　　Slavery was at the root of the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford. Dred Scott sued his master to obtain freedom for himself and his family. His argument was that he had lived in a territory where slavery was illegal; therefore he should be considered a free man. Dred Scott was born a slave in Virginia around 1800. Scott and his family were slaves owned by Peter Blow and his family. He moved to St. Louis with them in 1830 and was sold to John Emerson, a military doctor. They went to Illinois and the Wisconsin territory where the Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibited slavery. Dred Scott married and had two

James Monroe was elected the fifth president of the United States. When he decided to run for president, he ran on the side of a Republican. Monroe was elected ran twice and had a great challenge with those who ran against him. However, in the year of 1820 Monroe party had a great turn. Monroe’s party won

When Abraham Lincoln was elected as the first republican president, he only received 40% of the popular votes; he also beat three other candidates on top of that. Lincoln was responsible for a lot of changes and is also known as an icon in American History. Lincoln was a Kentucky-born lawyer and a former Whig Representative to the Congress. Lincoln was going up against Stephen Douglas in the Senate race; Douglas argued that the states should have a right to be a slave state or a free state, while Lincoln argued against slavery and the spread of it. Unsurprisingly, Lincoln had lost the Senate race, but his campaign against slavery brought national attention to the Republican Party, in 1860, Lincoln had won the Republican party’s nomination

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates were one of the most significant events in American political history. It led to high tensions between the North and the South and it ended up being one of the main causes of the civil war. The Lincoln–Douglas Debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. Lincoln first challenged Douglas to the debates in 1858. It consisted of seven, three hour public debates in total. Both republican and democratic citizens from all over the country came to watch the fascinating discussion between the two. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas engaged in the prominent Lincoln-Douglas Debates during the election of 1860, for the public debates led to high controversy between Northerners and Southerners.

“’One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought to be restricted. That,’ he said with a touch of irony, ‘is the only substantial dispute’” (Oakes 140). People bickered whether or not Lincoln was doing the right thing by signing the Emancipation

many acts and amendments resulted from one mans wish to be free. Dred Scott was a slave to the Emerson

In the Election of 1848, Martin Van Buren ran his campaign on abolitionism and as the Free Soil Parties candidate. Lewis Cass, a Democrat, ran on the idea of compromise within the colonies and really strived to get an equal balance between both the North and the South. But in the end, a Southerner who ran under the Whig party, Zachary Taylor, ended up winning the election. This was one of the first elections with the organized Free Soil party and was an important piece in why the two party system would eventually crash and eventually lead to the Union falling apart in 1861.

Victory was won in the Electoral College for Lincoln. This election firmly established the Republicans who held presidency for 60 of the next 100 years. He helped form the new Republican Party, drawing on remnants of the old Whig, Free Soil, Liberty and Democratic parties.

This day in history November 6th, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was the first of the Republican Party (The Grand Old Party) to be the President. He won the election with only approximately 40% (1,855,993) of the votes. Yet, he still beat John Breckenridge from the Southern Democratic Party, John Bell from the Constitutional Union and Stephen Douglas for the Northern Democratic Party.

The South also used this has a way to expand slavery despite the growing number of abolitionists and consequently, many people fought over the topic of slavery. This weakened national unity because the South wasn’t willing to work with the North. At this time slave owners were primarily Democratic-Republics and wanted slavery to grow, while the Republicans opposed slavery and wanted it to be abolished. This was a change because before the political parties were able to work together, but now they wouldn’t. This caused a major divide because many fights and arguments happened because of slavery.

This gained him the respect of the Republicans in Congress and also the support of his reelction as Senate. While one party was supportive of him, the other was completely unsupportive and against him. President Buchanan and the southerns explicitily argued against him and talked highly of their support for Lincoln as Senate. This gave Lincoln a big foot up and all he had to do to keep it was steer the Republicans away from supporting Douglas. He did this by exposing the moral state that separated them from their prior senator.

Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator in 1858. Debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation had won Abraham the Republican nomination for President in 1860. As President, Abraham built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Later on he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. Finally on January 1, 1863, he the Emancipation Proclamation had declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.

During Abraham Lincolns previous political career, he was a member of the Whig party. The Whig party ended in the year of 1852. In 1854 Lincoln reentered politics where he became a leader in the new Republican party. In 1856 Abraham Lincoln ran for U.S. Senate. It was then when he spoke out against the expansion of slavery. This was a glimpse of Abraham Lincolns ethical values. Lincoln would go on to lose the race to his opponent Stephen A. Douglas.

"When Stephen A. Douglas heard that he would be running against Abraham Lincoln for the United States Senate in 1858, he knew that he was up against a formidable opponent. Douglas called him "the strong man of his party—full of wit, facts, dates, and the best stump-speaker with droll-ways and dry jokes in the west" (146).