1. CHAPTER 15:
A Divided Nation
Section 4:
The Nation Divides

2. VOCABULARY
 Arsenal: A storehouse of weapons

3. RAID ON
HARPERS FERRY
 1859 – John Brown and a small
group of abolitionists attack the
arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

4. Harpers Ferry, Virginia

6. RAID ON
HARPERS FERRY
• Wanted to get weapons & give
them to slaves to start a rebellion

7. RAID ON
HARPERS FERRY
 No slaves come to help
 Brown is attacked by locals and
retreats to a firehouse

8. John Brown’s Raid

9. John Brown’s Raid

10. RAID ON
HARPERS FERRY
 Brown is captured and hung -
rebellion over
 Abolitionists
mourn but some
think his tactics
were too extreme
 Southerners
are angry

11. THE ELECTION
OF 1860
 Dem’s do not re-nominate
Buchanan
• They are split
over who to
nominate

12. THE ELECTION
OF 1860
 Northern Dem’s pick
Stephen Douglas
 Southern Dem’s pick
John C. Breckinridge
 Constitutional Union
Party picks John Bell
 Rep’s pick Abraham
Lincoln

13. Presidential Election of 1860

14. THE ELECTION
OF 1860
 Lincoln wins
with only 40%
of the votes
 Southerners
are angry

15. THE SOUTH SECEDES
 Eleven Southern states secede
•1860 – South Carolina
•1861 – Mississippi, Florida,
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas,
Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina,
Tennessee

16. THE SOUTH SECEDES
 Form the Confederate States of
America
 Elect Jefferson Davis President

17. The Nation is Divided

18. Lincoln’s
Inauguration
in 1861