Birth of the Republican Party UNIT 6 ANTEBELLUM

Birth of the Republican Party UNIT 6: ANTEBELLUM AMERICA

Evolution of Politics

Death of the Whig Party

Please Stop giving us your tired, Hungry and Poor…Wait that’s doesn’t sound right… �Nativism �Dislike IMMIGRATION �American Party � “Know Nothing Party” �Who Supports it? Middle Class White Protestants

Free Soil Party �Formed 1848 Disgruntled Party Leftovers OPPOSES the extension of slavery OPPOSES effects on White labor force.

Republican party is born �Unhappy Dems + Unhappy Whigs + Free Soilers = Republican Party �Party Platform Oppose KS NE Act Oppose the Expansion Of Slavery AKA the “Black Republicans”

Election of 1856

Mr. Scott goes to Washington UNIT 6: ANTEBELLUM AMERICA

Dred Scott Decision �The Case Was Dred a Citizen? Does RESIDENCY in FREE territory make you FREE? FREE �The Players Roger Taney Dred Scott

Say whaaaaatttt? �Dred Scott can never be a citizen CAN’T Sue �Free Territory does NOT make a Slave Free. Citizenshi p 5 th Amendment does not apply Missouri Compromise is overturned

Lincoln Douglass Debates UNIT 6 ANTEBELLUM AMERICA

Lincoln Douglas Debates �Major Players: Stephen Douglas (D) Abe Lincoln (R) �What they are fighting for Senate Seat of IL �The Playing Field 7 Open Aired Debates

Lincoln Douglas Debates Lincoln �Slavery Is IMMORAL Federal Law to ban extension �Civil Rights Deserve “Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness” Not Citizenship � Right to vote � Right to hold office Stephen Douglas �Slavery Popular Sovereignty Territories choose �Got Ya Moment! AL “How can residents prohibit slavery post Scott decision? ” SD “Ignore it!” �Freeport Doctrine Infuriated the South

Results of the Lincoln Douglas Debates � Results Douglass Won Senate seat in 1858 Cost him Presidency in 1860 �Lincoln Seeing into Future? “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. ”