It’s

1860

• Large cities. New York, Boston, and other major cities tripled or even quadrupled in size from 1820 to 1860 as people left their farms to find work in the cities.

• Semipro organized baseball clubs had sprung up all over New York. First officially organized baseball game played in California was in 1860

• Women gaining voice in public life

The North – New York City 1860

1860

• Economy based on agriculture and supported by slave labor

• Higher education became possible for women, but they were still expected to marry and stay at home with their children.

• John Brown had just been hanged in December of ‘59 for his raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

The South - Charleston, SC 1860

Abraham Lincoln is

selected as the U.S.

presidential candidate for

the new Republican

Party.

The election of 1860 had four candidates.

Yay!

The vote for Abraham Lincoln was mostly a vote for moderation toward the issue of slavery and a vote for the Union.

However, the South felt it no longer had a voice in the national government and did not see how it could remain in the Union.

At a state convention held six weeks after Election Day, South Carolina legislators voted to secede. It was a unanimous vote.

secede (v.): to make a formal withdrawal of membership from an organization or alliance

unanimous (adj): everyone in agreement

Outgoing President Buchanan publicly condemned South

Carolina’s action.

However, he did not use force to prevent it.

Within weeks, six other Southern states

followed South Carolina.