Pick Your Side

This week in Honors History 10 class we learned about the election of 1860. The essential question was "Were the results of the election of 1860 representative of the deep divisions of the civil war?" I agree with this question because the Northern states did not want slavery, the middle states wanted to keep everything the way it was and the Southern states wanted to keep slavery. The election was between four candidates. The candidates were Lincoln a republican who was against slavery, Douglas who was a Northern democrat who believed in the popular sovereignty. Breckinridge a Southern democrat believed that slavery had no limits. Lastly Bell a constitutional Union wanted to preserve the constitution but at the same time include slavery. With all of this information in class we went on a website that told us more information about this and also had pictures. With the information and pictures we made an educreation video talking about the election while showing pictures that match what we are saying.