The election of 1860 was quite significant as it foreshadowed the split in vote and ideology concerning slavery and the country. First, identify the four candidates and summarize their positions on the peculiar institution of slavery. Lincoln received “less than 40 percent of the popular vote nationwide” but 180 electoral votes out of a total of 303. Based on the Twelfth Amendment explain why Lincoln was legitimately elected to the presidency. Utilize the document called Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 to answer these final questions in detail: Explain Lincoln’s argument that the Union was “perpetual” and “unbroken” by the supposed secession of the South. What was Lincoln’s duty, as the president, when it came to the law, including the law that applied to the so-called Confederate states?
The election of 1860 was quite significant as it foreshadowed the split in vote and ideology concerning slavery and the country. First, identify the four candidates and summarize their positions on the peculiar institution of slavery.
Lincoln received “less than 40 percent of the popular vote nationwide” but 180 electoral votes out of a total of 303. Based on the Twelfth Amendment explain why Lincoln was legitimately elected to the presidency.
Utilize the document called Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 to answer these final questions in detail: Explain Lincoln’s argument that the Union was “perpetual” and “unbroken” by the supposed secession of the South. What was Lincoln’s duty, as the president, when it came to the law, including the law that applied to the so-called Confederate states?
Finally, explain Lincoln’s distinction between “insurrection” and the “revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow” the government. Why is one illegal and the other the right of the people recognized in the Declaration of Independence?
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