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    The document discusses the political landscape in the United States leading up to the Civil War. It analyzes the positions of the four main political parties at the time - the Republican Party led by Abraham Lincoln who opposed the expansion of slavery, the Northern and Southern factions of the Democratic Party which had differing views on slavery, and the Constitutional Unionist Party led by John Bell which aimed to avoid taking a firm stance on slavery. The document suggests that though the political parties wanted to preserve the Union, differences over slavery led to the country dividing and the Civil War breaking out once Lincoln was elected as the first Republican president on an anti-slavery platform.

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    The document discusses the political landscape in the United States leading up to the Civil War. It analyzes the positions of the four main political parties at the time - the Republican Party led by Abraham Lincoln who opposed the expansion of slavery, the Northern and Southern factions of the Democratic Party which had differing views on slavery, and the Constitutional Unionist Party led by John Bell which aimed to avoid taking a firm stance on slavery. The document suggests that though the political parties wanted to preserve the Union, differences over slavery led to the country dividing and the Civil War breaking out once Lincoln was elected as the first Republican president on an anti-slavery platform.

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    THE REPUBLIC JUSTIFIES THE MEANS?

    Carlos Quintero
    HISTH 1301
    December 2018
    JUSTIFICATION
    • Necessity, pertinence, and motivations.
    • Politicians of the mid-nineteenth century (19th
    Century)
    • Leading to the American Civil War
    • As Nicolas Machiavelli shapes it; the end justifies
    the means or applied to the board game the Divided
    Republic:
    • The question would be the republic justifies the
    means?
    RESEARCH QUESTION
    • Political parties of the time were willing
    to allow slavery to exist if they could
    save the republic?
    • The comparison of ideologies of the
    main politicians in the Democratic and
    Republican parties of the decade of
    1850 will help address the question.
    POLITICAL PANORAMA
    REPUBLICAN PARTY
    • Abraham Lincoln
    • Slavery must not be allowed to
    expand into the territories as
    America expanded West.
    • Abolitionist
    NORTHERN FACTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
    • Stephen Douglas believed that the
    issue of slavery should be
    determined through popular
    sovereignty in territories as they
    become states.
    SOUTHERN FACTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
    • Southerners left the Democratic
    party in protest of the party’s
    platform concerning slavery.
    • Southern Democrats met in
    Baltimore in June 1860 to nominate
    John Breckinridge.
    CONSTITUTIONALIST UNIONIST
    • John Bell leading the political party
    of the constitutionalist unionist
    remained neutral with respect to
    slavery.
    • They hope that by failing to take a
    firm stand either for or against
    slavery or its expansion, the issue
    could be pushed aside
    CONCLUSIONS
    • Slavery as a main issue
    • Key discussion point
    • Divided Republic and board game
    • Four (4) political parties
    • Constitutional unionists Pro-Slavery
    • Northern democrats *Different levels
    • Southern democrats
    • Republicans Pro-Abolinitionist
    CONCLUSIONS
    • Civil War was a consequence on the differences
    of free states and slave states over the power of
    the national government to prohibit slavery in
    territories that were not states.
    • When Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860
    as the first Republican president of a platform
    promising to exclude slavery from the territories:
    • 7 states in the south separated from the United States
    and formed a new nation, The Confederate States of
    America.
    WORKS CITED
    • Epperson, James F. Causes Of The Civil War. OTTN Pub., 2006.
    • Dolan, Edward F. The American Civil War : A House Divided. Lerner
    Publishing Group, 1997.
    • Cunliffe, Marcus. "The Causes of the American Civil War." History Today,
    vol. 3, no. 11, Nov. 1953, pp. 753-761.
    • Rulebook for Alex Bagosy, Divided Republic (Numbskull Games, 2012).

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