Chapter 16 Section 4 Smartboard Lecture: The Republican Party Emerges.notebook
Chapter 16 Section 4: The
Republican Party Emerges
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Chapter 16 Section 4 Smartboard Lecture: The Republican Party Emerges.notebook
In this lesson, we will:
• explain why the
Republican Party was
founded.
• explain the rapid
emergence of
Abraham Lincoln as a
Republican leader.
• describe the
reaction to John
Brown's raid on
Harper's Ferry.
Key terms this section:
• Republican Party
• arsenal
• treason
• martyr
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Chapter 16 Section 4 Smartboard Lecture: The Republican Party Emerges.notebook
• A group of Free-Soilers,
northern Democrats &
antislavery Whigs met in
Michigan in 1854.
• main goal was to keep slavery
out of the western
territories.
• a few Republicans were
abolitionists, but most merely
wanted to keep slavery from
spreading.
• the new party grew quickly.
John C. Fremont
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Chapter 16 Section 4 Smartboard Lecture: The Republican Party Emerges.notebook
• Fremont was chosen
to run as the
Republican candidate
for president in 1856.
• his opponent was
James Buchanan
• Buchanan was viewed
as a "northern man
with southern
principles." What do
you think this
means???
• Buchanan won the
election, but the
Republicans had a good
showing, winning 1/3 of all
electoral votes without
winning a single southern
state!!
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Chapter 16 Section 4 Smartboard Lecture: The Republican Party Emerges.notebook
The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln
• The next big test for
the emerging
Republican Party came
in Illinois in 1858.
• Abraham Lincoln
challenged Stephen A.
Douglas for his seat in
the U.S. Senate.
• the race captured
the attention of the
entire nation.
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The Lincoln­
Douglas debates
• During the Senate campaign,
Lincoln challenged Douglas to a
series of debates.
• they debated seven times; slavery
was the important issue.
• Douglas preferred settling slavery
by popular__________.
• Lincoln believed slavery was
wrong.
• Lincoln was not an abolitionist
however. He had no interest to
interfere where slavery had
already existed.
• initial concern of Lincoln's was to
stop spread of slavery in the
territories.
• In the end, Douglas won the Senate race by a slim
margin, but Lincoln was a winner too. Two years later,
the rivals would meet again--both seeking the
presidency.
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More bloodshed
• In 1859, the radical
abolitionist John Brown carried
his antislavery campaign from
Kansas to the east.
• He led a group of supporters,
including 5 blacks, to the town
of Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
• He planned to raid an arsenal,
which is a gun warehouse. He
hoped that slaves would revolt
and support him and he would
then give them weapons to lead
them in a rebellion across the
South.
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• Brown gained control of
the arsenal but was
quickly captured by troops
under the command of
Robert E. Lee.
• court found him guilty of
murder & treason.
• At his sentencing he
gave a moving defense of
his actions.
• He showed no emotion
when sentenced to death.
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• Because of the way Brown
conducted himself at trial,
he became a martyr to
many in the North. A martyr
is someone willing to die for
their beliefs.
• To Southerners, they
were outraged and appalled
at the sympathy Brown
gained after his execution;
after all they argued, he
had tried to lead a slave
revolt.
• Many Southerners came
to believe that the North
wanted to destroy slavery,
and the Southern way of
life along with it.
Let's look at page 477 for more
on John Brown's death.
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As John Brown stepped to the gallows, a woman thrust a pen and paper into his hand for an autograph, or a blessing. Brown scribbled a moment, and handed the paper back. It said:
"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood ... " 11