Pd 5 Key Concept 5.2 Intensfied by expansion and deepIng regional dvivisions, debates over salvert amd pther ecomcinc, cultural, and poltical issues led the nation into civil war
A.) The Mexican Cession led to heated controversies over whether to allow slavery in the newly acquired territories.
B.) The courts and national leaders made a variety of attempts to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories, including the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas- Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision, but these ultimately failed to reduce conflict.
C: The Second Party System ended when the issues of slavery and anti-immigrant nativism weakened loyalties to the two major parties and fostered the emergence of sectional parties, most notably the Republican Party in the North.
By the 1850s most Democratic party leaders had accepted many Whiggish ideas, and no one could deny the economic modernization of factories and railroads was moving ahead rapidly. The old economic issues died about the same time old leaders like Calhoun, Webster, Clay, Jackson and Polk passed from the scene. New issues, especially the questions of slavery, nativism and religion came to the fore. 1852 was the last hurrah for the Whigs; everyone realized they could win only if the Democrats split in two. With the healing of the Free Soil revolt after 1852, Democratic dominance seemed assured. The Whigs went through the motions, but both rank and file and leaders quietly dropped out.
D.) Abraham Lincoln’s victory on the Republicans’ free-soil platform in the presidential election of 1860 was accomplished without any southern electoral votes. After a series of contested debates about secession, most slave states voted to secede from the Union, precipitating the Civil War.
a. He didn’t receive any electoral votes from the south because they feared he would abolish slavery.
b. South was completely dependent off of slaves for their agricultural system
c. Once Lincoln was elected South Carolina was the first to secede
d. Six states then followed before Lincoln even got into office (Alabama, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, and Virginia)
e. They formed the Confederate States of the United States