HIST 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Southern Democrats, John C. Breckinridge, Rebellious Slave
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Abraham lincoln, a republican, wins with electoral college votes of 180 and popular vote of 1,800,000. John breckenridge, a democratic (southern), had 72 electoral votes. Virginia, north carolina, tennessee, arkansas vote for secession in 1861. You vote for the electoral, not president because they vote for them. Everything you want to avoid by seceding you"re going to get by seceding. If your desire is to hold your slave, how is leaving going to get anything you want. Either you go to war and are separate with the republics, or you form a new confederation with southern states. We don"t get what we want, and so why not choose not to have war. Has a printout, but he makes some changes by hand. Post offices are places owned and operated by the federal government. Confederate states want them because they want guns, cannons, bullets, etc. A small island by south carolina that was made by the confederates with confederate money.
