Carlyn
Nordeman
And Sam
Evangelista
LINCOLN
BELL
BRECKINRIDGE
DOUGLAS
Bleeding
Kansas, 1856
Gadsden
Purchase, 1853
Compromise
of 1850
John Brown’s
Raid, 1859
Lincoln- Douglas
Debates, 1858
KansasNebraska Act,
1854
Republican
Convention
Vice President- Hannibal Hamlin
Lincoln V. Douglas
Debates
•Held during the 1858 campaign for the US senate seat for Illinois (state legislatures
chose senator)
•Seven sites throughout Illinois one in each of the congressional districts
•Douglas was the senator already and was a contributor to the compromise of 1850
•Believed in popular sovereignty and was responsible for the KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
•Lincoln was an unknown and believed the Us could not survive as a half free state
half slave state country
• debates drew attention from all from entire nation
•Lincoln lost senate race in 1858, but was a moral victory for Lincoln and gave him a
lot of publicity
Lincoln as a
Congressman
•Representative from Illinois
•Elected rep. for the state house
of Representatives in 1834
•Unsuccessful as a Whig candidate
before his presidency in the
House of Representatives
Abraham Lincoln
•At the time was a respected state politician in Illinois
•Attracted by Republicans because he was an elegant
speaker, moderate position on slavery, and he would
be a compatible opponent for Stephen Douglas
• Campaign managers premised Lincoln voters
patronage
•Lincoln visited the South and preached the value of
Union and warned against succession
Stephen Douglas
• Northern Democrats met in Baltimore,
Maryland, and nominated Stephen Douglas
• Douglas lost much support after “Bleeding
Kansas”
• He won back popularity by denouncing
Buchanan and the Lecompton constitution in
1858
• Became member of the House of Reps in
1857
John Bell
• Served secretary of war under William Henry
Harrison and John Tyler in 1841
• Resigned in protest of Tyler’s vetoes of the Whig
bills
• Returned to local politics and was elected to the
State House of Representatives and served until
1859
• Constitutional Union party for the election of
1860 was a desperate attempt to save the Whig
Party which was collapsing
Compromise of 1850
• California was entered as a free state
• New Mexico and Utah’s status would be
decided based on popular sovereignty
• Texas lost the New Mexico territory but
received $10 million from the government
• Slave trade in the District of Columbia was
abolished
• New Fugitive Slave Act was passed
Gadsden Purchase of 1853
• Agreement between United States and Mexico
in which the U.S agreed to pay Mexico $10
million for a 29,670 square mile portion of
Mexico
• This territory later became Arizona and New
Mexico
• Provided necessary land for a transcontinental
railroad and tried to resolve conflicts from
after the Mexican American War
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Allowed for people in Nebraska and Kansas to
decide whether or not they wanted slavery within
their borders
• Repealed the Missouri compromise of 1820
• Made many people in the north angry who
thought that the Missouri Compromise was a
“long standing biding agreement”
• Caused many pro-slavery and anti-slavery people
to rush into Kansas and cause conflict with one
another
Bleeding Kansas
• Time period between 1854 and 1858 where
there was much violence in the Kansas
territory over whether it would be slave or
free
• Border issues occurred when the South tried
to sway the people to the pro-slavery side
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
• Series of 7 debates between Abe Lincoln
(republican) and Stephen Douglas (democrat)
for a seat in the Illinois house senate
• Campaigning for their own parties to win
control of the Illinois legislature
• Main issue discussed was slavery
John Brown’s Raid (1859)
• Placed men in military action to
stop slavery
• Went to a pro-slavery town and
“brutally killed” 5 of its residents
• Convicted for treason and hanged
Republican Convention
• At first after the ballots, no candidate had a
majority
• Many of the people there was Seward were
telling people to swing their vote to Lincoln
• Ohio chairman changed the state’s votes
• LINCOLN WINS 