4. Republican Party Platform:
• Protective tariff
• Transcontinental railroad
• Free western land for settlers
• No expansion of slavery into
western territories
6. Lincoln’s reaction to secession
“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere
with the institution of slavery in the States where it
exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have
no inclination to do so.”
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in
mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government
will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being
yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in
heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the
most solemn one to “preserve, protect, and defend it.”
- Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
8. “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the
Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If
I could save the Union without freeing any slave I
would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the
slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing
some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do
because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I
forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help
to save the Union.”
- Lincoln, August 22, 1862
9. Basic Causes of Southern Secession
1. Slavery
2. States’ Rights vs. Federal Government
3. Economic Differences
4. Cultural Differences
Lincoln’s Reason for Fighting the War:
1861-1862: PRESERVE UNION
1863-1865: PRESERVE UNION + END SLAVERY
24. Siege of Vicksburg, MS
May 18, 1863 - July 4, 1863
USA: Ulysses S. Grant
vs.
CSA: John Pemberton
25. Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth, upon this continent, a new
nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
testing whether that nation, or any nation so
conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met here on a great battlefield of that
war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it
as a final resting place for those who here gave
their lives that that nation might live. It is
altogether fitting and proper that we should do
this.
26. But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we
can not consecrate - we can not hallow this
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled, here, have consecrated it far above
our poor power to add or detract. The world
will little note, nor long remember, what we say
here, but can never forget what they did here.
27. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated
here to the unfinished work which they have,
thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us - that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause
for which they here gave the last full measure
of devotion - that we here highly resolve that
these dead shall not have died in vain; that this
nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and
that this government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth.
