Mr. President
Abraham Lincoln was the ___ President
16th
What was slavery built upon?
Racism
Who won the presidential election of 1860, and 50 bonus points for stating with how many electoral votes?
Abraham Lincoln with 180 electoral votes
What were the 2 most western states in 1860?
California and Oregon
Why did Lincoln not try to win the South?
He supported antislavery, and the South supported slavery.
What did local laws prevent African Americans from doing?
Traveling and assembling in large groups.
Who were the Unionists?
Members of the Constitutional Union Party
How many states seceded from the U.S., and Name 3 of the states.
11. Ex: TX, AK, LA,MS, AL, TN, FL, GA, SC, NC, VA
Who did Lincoln fight against to represent Illinois in the Senate? (50 bonus points for naming how many debates there were.)
Douglas, and there were 4 debates
How were the refugee African Americans thought of in the North?
The Northerners thought poorly of the African Americans. They faced racism and restricted rights, just like in the South.
Who was Abraham Lincoln’s main competitor in the 1860 election? (50 bonus points for naming all 3 competitors.)
Breckenridge (The other 2 are Bell and Douglas)
When the South seceded, what country did they form, and who was their president for 50 bonus points?
The Confederate States of America and Jefferson Davis.
Where did Lincoln grow up, and where did he move at 21
Kentucky and Illinois
What did the Dred Scott decision state?
Enslaved and free African American people are not U.S. citizens.
Douglas got a total of 12 electoral votes from which 2 states?
Missouri and New Jersey
Which 2 territories in the Compromise of 1850 were open to slavery?
Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory.
What quote did Douglas state in Document 2 (Does not have to be word-for-word), and what day was the last debate?
“Could the people of Territory keep slavery out?” September 18, 1858
How did many slave owners justify slavery?
They claimed that African Americans were better off under the care of farm owners than they would be by themselves.
Lincoln won the 1860 election by how much of the popular vote, and which northern state did he not win?
Lincoln won with 40% of the popular vote, and he did not win New Jersey, which he tied with Douglas.
How many states were in the United States in 1862?
23 (5 border states of the 23. 11 left the union to form the Confederate States.)