THE REPUBLIC JUSTIFIES THE MEANS?

Carlos Quintero
HISTH 1301
December 2018
JUSTIFICATION
• Necessity, pertinence, and motivations.
• Politicians of the mid-nineteenth century (19th
Century)
• Leading to the American Civil War
• As Nicolas Machiavelli shapes it; the end justifies
the means or applied to the board game the Divided
Republic:
• The question would be the republic justifies the
means?
RESEARCH QUESTION
• Political parties of the time were willing
to allow slavery to exist if they could
save the republic?
• The comparison of ideologies of the
main politicians in the Democratic and
Republican parties of the decade of
1850 will help address the question.
POLITICAL PANORAMA
REPUBLICAN PARTY
• Abraham Lincoln
• Slavery must not be allowed to
expand into the territories as
America expanded West.
• Abolitionist
NORTHERN FACTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
• Stephen Douglas believed that the
issue of slavery should be
determined through popular
sovereignty in territories as they
become states.
SOUTHERN FACTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
• Southerners left the Democratic
party in protest of the party’s
platform concerning slavery.
• Southern Democrats met in
Baltimore in June 1860 to nominate
John Breckinridge.
 CONSTITUTIONALIST UNIONIST
• John Bell leading the political party
of the constitutionalist unionist
remained neutral with respect to
slavery.
• They hope that by failing to take a
firm stand either for or against
slavery or its expansion, the issue
could be pushed aside
CONCLUSIONS
• Slavery as a main issue
• Key discussion point
• Divided Republic and board game
• Four (4) political parties
• Constitutional unionists Pro-Slavery
• Northern democrats *Different levels
• Southern democrats
• Republicans Pro-Abolinitionist
CONCLUSIONS
• Civil War was a consequence on the differences
of free states and slave states over the power of
the national government to prohibit slavery in
territories that were not states.
• When Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860
as the first Republican president of a platform
promising to exclude slavery from the territories:
• 7 states in the south separated from the United States
and formed a new nation, The Confederate States of
America.
WORKS CITED
• Epperson, James F. Causes Of The Civil War. OTTN Pub., 2006.
• Dolan, Edward F. The American Civil War : A House Divided. Lerner
Publishing Group, 1997.
• Cunliffe, Marcus. "The Causes of the American Civil War." History Today,
vol. 3, no. 11, Nov. 1953, pp. 753-761.
• Rulebook for Alex Bagosy, Divided Republic (Numbskull Games, 2012).