Split Over Slavery

The essential question for this lesson was “How were the results of the  Election of 1860 representative of the deep divisions  over slavery?” This asks how the results of the election displayed how different people viewed slavery at the time. To answer this question we first watched a Crash Course video about this election. Next we looked at a map from the class lesson notes on edline. This map showed that Lincoln, who was against slavery and felt as though it should be contained, completely won over the north of the country. Douglas believed that the way slavery should be spread is only if the people decided on it, and the only state he managed to convince was Missouri. Breckenridge maintained that slavery should have no limits; he won over the majority of the South. Lastly Bell wanted to keep the union the way it was including all of the slavery going on in it; he won the in between states. Finally we made an explanatory video using educreations of The Election of 1860 that contained 5 images of events that helped aid the story from Civil War in Art, and 3 additional events.

The results of this election caused so many different reactions. The fact that some states seceded clearly shows how divided the South was over the slavery issue. The different politicians that won over each state also indicates how divided the nation was; The two more successful candidates of this election, Abraham Lincoln, and Breckenridge had the north and the south completely on opposite sides of the issue. This election demonstrates the deep divisions over slavery and causes a spark of a war.   


Sources:

http://www.civilwarinart.org/exhibits/show/causes/introduction/the-election-of-1860-and-seces

http://www.nps.gov/resources/story.htm?id=196 

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/Homer_Letter/Homer_Lincoln_Inauguration.jpg 

http://www.edline.net/files/_CJKPB_/20eb6e3d67b5015b3745a49013852ec4/Election_of_1860_Lesson_Notes.pdf

https://nerdfighteria.info/video/crashcourse/roNmeOOJCDY