The Civil War1861-1865The Secession CrisisDecember 186.docxmehek4
The Civil War
1861-1865
The Secession Crisis
December 1860-April 1861
Secession Before Fort Sumter
South Carolina- December 20, 1860
Mississippi- January 9, 1861
Florida- January 10, 1861
Alabama-January 11, 1861
Georgia- January 19, 1861
Louisiana- January 26, 1861
Texas- February 1, 1861
The Nature of the Confederacy:
A Jeffersonian Experiment?
Confederate Constitution modeled after US Constitution with some important changes
President limited to one six-year term
Prohibited protectionist tariff
Prohibited government investment in internal improvements
States have power to remove Confederate officials with jurisdiction only in their state
Explicitly mentions slavery
No general welfare clause
Explicitly a compact of states
Great Seal of the Confederacy
Confederate President Jefferson Davis
Born June 3, 1808 in Kentucky, moved to Mississippi as a youth
Graduated from West Point in 1824
Left the army to become a Cotton Planter
Reentered the army to fight in the Mexican War
Appointed Senator from Mississippi in 1847 as a Democrat
Secretary of War under President Pierce, returning to the Senate in 1857
Opposed seccession and called the day he had to resign from the Senate as “the saddest day in my life”
President of the Confederacy in February 1861
The Nature of the Confederacy:
A Nation Based on Slavery
Multiple Confederate Secession Ordinances cited slavery as the principle cause
Confederate Constitution explicitly references and protects slavery
The Confederate states sent agents into the other slave states trying to convince them to join them based on the slavery issue
Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens was open about the Confederacy’s being based on slavery and white supremacy
Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens
Born February 11, 1812 to a poor Georgia family
Became a Lawyer in 1834
Elected to the House of Representatives in 1843 as a Whig
Unionist during the early crises of the 1850s
Became a Democrat after the fall of the Whigs
Ran the Democratic effort in the House to pass the Pro-Slavery Kansas Lecompton Constitution in 1858
Critical of Souther extremists
Delegate to the George Secession Convention in 1860 and voted against it
Elected to the Confederate Congress and then to the Vice-Presidency, taking the oath of office in February 1861
March 1861, the Cornerstone Speech: “Our new government is founded ...; its foundations are laid, its corner–stone rests, upon the great truth that, the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition....This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great, philosophical, and moral truth.”
President Buchanan and President-Elect Lincoln on Southern Secession
President Buchanan took the position that secession was unconstitutional, but he could do nothing about it.
However, when Secretary of War John B. Floyd sent arms south in preparation for secessio ...
The Civil War1861-1865The Secession CrisisDecember 186.docxmehek4
The Civil War
1861-1865
The Secession Crisis
December 1860-April 1861
Secession Before Fort Sumter
South Carolina- December 20, 1860
Mississippi- January 9, 1861
Florida- January 10, 1861
Alabama-January 11, 1861
Georgia- January 19, 1861
Louisiana- January 26, 1861
Texas- February 1, 1861
The Nature of the Confederacy:
A Jeffersonian Experiment?
Confederate Constitution modeled after US Constitution with some important changes
President limited to one six-year term
Prohibited protectionist tariff
Prohibited government investment in internal improvements
States have power to remove Confederate officials with jurisdiction only in their state
Explicitly mentions slavery
No general welfare clause
Explicitly a compact of states
Great Seal of the Confederacy
Confederate President Jefferson Davis
Born June 3, 1808 in Kentucky, moved to Mississippi as a youth
Graduated from West Point in 1824
Left the army to become a Cotton Planter
Reentered the army to fight in the Mexican War
Appointed Senator from Mississippi in 1847 as a Democrat
Secretary of War under President Pierce, returning to the Senate in 1857
Opposed seccession and called the day he had to resign from the Senate as “the saddest day in my life”
President of the Confederacy in February 1861
The Nature of the Confederacy:
A Nation Based on Slavery
Multiple Confederate Secession Ordinances cited slavery as the principle cause
Confederate Constitution explicitly references and protects slavery
The Confederate states sent agents into the other slave states trying to convince them to join them based on the slavery issue
Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens was open about the Confederacy’s being based on slavery and white supremacy
Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens
Born February 11, 1812 to a poor Georgia family
Became a Lawyer in 1834
Elected to the House of Representatives in 1843 as a Whig
Unionist during the early crises of the 1850s
Became a Democrat after the fall of the Whigs
Ran the Democratic effort in the House to pass the Pro-Slavery Kansas Lecompton Constitution in 1858
Critical of Souther extremists
Delegate to the George Secession Convention in 1860 and voted against it
Elected to the Confederate Congress and then to the Vice-Presidency, taking the oath of office in February 1861
March 1861, the Cornerstone Speech: “Our new government is founded ...; its foundations are laid, its corner–stone rests, upon the great truth that, the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition....This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great, philosophical, and moral truth.”
President Buchanan and President-Elect Lincoln on Southern Secession
President Buchanan took the position that secession was unconstitutional, but he could do nothing about it.
However, when Secretary of War John B. Floyd sent arms south in preparation for secessio ...
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3. 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
5. “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
6. The Basic Causes of Southern Secession
1. Slavery
2. State’s Rights vs. Federal Gov.
3. Economic Differences
4. Cultural Differences
Lincoln’s Reason for Fighting the War:
1861-1862: PRESERVE UNION
1863-1865: PRESERVE UNION + END SLAVERY