{"id":2115,"date":"2020-09-21T14:29:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T14:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/?page_id=2115"},"modified":"2024-02-29T13:59:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:59:05","slug":"election-secession-and-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/course-syllabus\/election-secession-and-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Election, Secession and War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Stages of American Electoral Democracy<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Candidate announcements<\/li>\n<li>Nomination campaigns<\/li>\n<li>Party Nominations<\/li>\n<li>General Campaigns<\/li>\n<li>General Elections<\/li>\n<li>Counting and Certifying<\/li>\n<li>Inaugurations \/ oath-swearings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Crisis of 1861<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-29-at-8.36.18-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2551\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-29-at-8.36.18-AM.png\" alt=\"Title\" width=\"906\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-29-at-8.36.18-AM.png 906w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-29-at-8.36.18-AM-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-29-at-8.36.18-AM-768x571.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-29-at-8.36.18-AM-900x670.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2022\/10\/Lincolns-First-Inaugural.pdf\"><strong>Lincoln\u2019s Secession Crisis, And Ours<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>Compromise was the most lethal epithet in the reformer&#8217;s lexicon.\u00a0 It is their refusal to compromise that makes reformers so attractive and frustrating.\u00a0 &#8211;Oakes, p. 135<\/p>\n<p>For nearly two years after the Civil War began there was nothing Abraham Lincoln could do to satisfy Frederick Douglass. &#8211;Oakes, p. 169<\/p>\n<p>Douglass actually endorsed all paths to emancipation.\u00a0 He was a flexible dogmatist.\u00a0 The goal mattered much more than the means of achieving it. &#8211;Oakes, p. 170<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Image Gateway<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_2117\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2117\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2117\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-10.19.38-AM-1024x221.png\" alt=\"Lincoln photos\" width=\"640\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-10.19.38-AM-1024x221.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-10.19.38-AM-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-10.19.38-AM-768x166.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-10.19.38-AM.png 1436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These images represent a selection of Lincoln photographs from his earliest (1846 or 1847) to the final known portrait (March 1865). Do you think Lincoln was trying to convey any specific political message with his public image?<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Brief Political Chronology of the Civil War (1861-63)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>November 1860 &#8211; March 1861<\/strong> \/\/ Lincoln assembles cabinet of party leaders<\/p>\n<p><strong>March &#8211; April 1861<\/strong> \/\/ Lincoln overrides advisors on Fort Sumter crisis<\/p>\n<p><strong>April &#8211; May 1861<\/strong> \/\/ Lincoln defies Chief Justice on civil liberties<\/p>\n<p><strong>July 1861<\/strong> \/\/ Lincoln pressures Union generals toward first battle<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2127\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/journal\/2010\/06\/07\/team-of-rivals-op-ed\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2127\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2127\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-12.14.28-PM-207x300.png\" alt=\"Composite cabinet\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-12.14.28-PM-207x300.png 207w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-12.14.28-PM-706x1024.png 706w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-12.14.28-PM-768x1114.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-12.14.28-PM.png 838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A team of rivals? Can you identify the members of Lincoln&#8217;s cabinet who resigned or got replaced?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>August &#8211; September 1861<\/strong> \/\/ Lincoln clashes with Fremont over emancipation in border states<\/p>\n<p><strong>November 1861<\/strong> \/\/ Lincoln elevates McClellan to general-in-chief<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 1862<\/strong> \/\/ Lincoln reorganizes War Dept. and issues Gen. War Order No. 1<\/p>\n<p><strong>March -July 1862<\/strong> \/\/ Lincoln and McClellan argue strategy during Peninsula campaign<\/p>\n<p><strong>July 1862<\/strong> \/\/ Congress adopts Second Confiscation Act and Lincoln secretly drafts emancipation order<\/p>\n<p><strong>August 1862<\/strong> \/\/ Lincoln publicly replies to criticism by Greeley and others<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 1862<\/strong> \/\/ Union victory at Antietam; Lincoln announces both emancipation plans and nationwide suspension of civil liberties<\/p>\n<p><strong>October-November 1862<\/strong> \/\/ Republicans lose seats in midterm elections<\/p>\n<p><strong>December 1862<\/strong> \/\/ Lincoln&#8217;s cabinet crisis<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 1, 1863<\/strong> \/\/ Emancipation Proclamation<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stages of American Electoral Democracy Candidate announcements Nomination campaigns Party Nominations General Campaigns General Elections Counting and Certifying Inaugurations \/ oath-swearings Crisis of 1861 Lincoln\u2019s Secession Crisis, And Ours &nbsp; Compromise was the most lethal epithet in the reformer&#8217;s lexicon.\u00a0 It is their refusal to compromise that makes reformers so attractive and frustrating.\u00a0 &#8211;Oakes, p. 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