1.
Harpers Ferry Landscape provides
a National Park Service overview of the living conditions and the social
environment as it existed in 1860.
2.
Introducing the Democratic,
Constitutional Union Party, and Southern Democratic party delegates.
3.
Introduction
to the "Harpers Ferry Election 1860" event, including suffrage
issues and social environment.
4.
Popular Sovereignty as a compromise
drafted by Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas was an effort to avert secession
by allowing voters within new territories and states to determine their
own laws regarding slavery. Led to the Kansas/Nebraska War.
5.
The Southern
Democratic Party broke away from the Democratic Party in an effort
to demand state rights over the control of the Federal government and
champion the right of individual states to leave the Union. This party
was headed by former Vice-President John C. Breckinridge.
6.
The Constitutional
Union Party advocated a centralized Federal Bank first proposed by
Alexander Hamilton, then later destroyed by the Jacksonian Democrats.
7.
The Southern Democratic Party delegate explains
the suffrage issue- who could vote,
who could not, and the reasoning behind the mid 19th-Century standards,
which eventually evolved into the exclusionary Jim Crow laws of the 20th-Century.
8.
The delegate for the Constitutional
Union Party explains his party's platform, which focussed primarily
on fiscal and monetary issues, and detailed an executive branch Presidency
that merely implements decisions formulated in Congress.
9.
The Southern Democratic Party delegate explains
the Southern viewpoint regarding tarrifs
and fiscal policies they believed favored the needs of Northern Industrialists
over the needs of the Southern agricultural society.
11.
Ladies portraying Harpers
Ferry slaves present their story, including results of the raid by
John Brown.
12.
The Southern Democratic delegate presents the issue
of American expansionism as Americans
ponder the conquest and inclusion of Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and other countries
within the Western Hemisphere.
13.
The Southern Democratic delegate presents the concept
of Manifest Destiny, which
was a religous-based political agenda that expounded the belief that the
United States was pre-ordained by God to take control over the entire
Western Hemisphere.
14.
The Constitutional Union Party delegate presents
his party's views on commerce.
15.
Members of the Wildcat Regimental Brass
Band perform period music on period instruments.
16.
National Park Service officials present the election
results from the presidential election of 1860.
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