SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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By highlighting the disagreements that caused the breakup of the Democratic Party.
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By explaining why Southern Democrats disagreed with the Republican plan to end slavery.
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By showing how slavery affected the economy of the Southern states.
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By describing how Southern Democrats wanted slavery spread into new states.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Democratic Party also split over the issue of slavery in the years leading to the Civil War, with some Northern Democrats adopting anti-slavery (“free soil”) positions that differed from pro-slavery Southern Democrats, who ultimately opted to leave the Senate in support of secession.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Democratic Party split over the issue of slavery. Northern Democrats believed in “popular sovereignty, ” or the right of new states and territories to decide if they wanted to include or exclude slavery from their borders.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lacking an effective opposition, the Democratic-Republicans split into four rival groups after the 1824 presidential election; one faction supported President John Quincy Adams, while another faction backed General Andrew Jackson.
Detailed explanation-4: -After President Harry S. Truman, a member of the Democratic Party, ordered integration of the military in 1948 and other actions to address civil rights of African Americans, many Southern conservative white politicians who objected to this course organized themselves as a breakaway faction.