Republican Party Beginnings
Honest Abe
Sectional Divisions
Republican Party For Real
...and so it begins
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New political party organized in 1854.
What is the Republican Party?
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Lost to Stephan Douglass.
Who is Abe Lincoln? (Lincoln Douglass Debates)
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The earth looked as if it were bleeding.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
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Won the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
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Montgomery, Alabama
Where did Southern seceding states meet to form a new country?
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Lost the election of 1856.
Who is John C Fremont/Abe Lincoln.
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Argued that slavery could stay out of the West by refusing to pass laws to regulate it.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
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Chief Justice that that delivered the majority opinion in Dred Scott.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
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The South viewed this as victory of the abolitionists.
What is the Republican Victory of 1860?
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Jefferson Davis
Who is the President of the Confederacy?
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Agreed that slavery should be kept out of the territories.
What is the Republican view on slavery?
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Republican candidate in the 1860 election.
Whos is Abe Lincoln?
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Enslaved man that argued he lived in a free state so he was free.
Who is Dred Scott?
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Caused the South to seceed.
What is the Republican Victory of 1860?
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Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Where was the first battle of the Civil War?
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To prevent the US from becoming a monarchy.
What is a reason that the Repulican Party was formed?
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Abraham Lincoln
Who is the President of the Union?
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Lived in Florence.
Who is Dred Scott?
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The Union/The United States ....The Confederacy/The Confederate States of America
What are the official names of the North and South during the Civil War?
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The South.
Who won the first battle of the Civil War?
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To revive the spirit of the American Revolution.
What is the reason the Republican Party was formed?
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"In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine is teh momentous issue of civil war...."
What is Lincoln's Inaugural Address?
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Southerners viewed this as all the proof they needed that Notherners were actively plotting to murder slaveholders.
What is the John Brown Raid?
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Denounced John Brown’s Raid, Reaffirmed the rights of the Southern States to preserve slavery within the borders, Supported higher tarrifs, Supported a new homestead law for western settlers, Supported a transcontinental railroad
What ways did the Republican Party try to convince people that they were more than just anti-slavery?
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Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee
What states seceded after Fort Sumter?
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