Election of 1860
The Republican candidate in the 1860 election.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A state in the middle of the north and south United States.
What is a border state?
The first line of the Gettysburg Adress.
What is "four score and seven years ago"?
A crop that is easy to grow and can be sold at a high price. (Example as well)
What is a cash crop, cotton or tobbaco?
The state that Abraham Lincoln was born in.
What is Kentucky?
The target voters for the republic party.
Who are northern people?
The act of withdrawing from the union.
What is secession?
The length of Lincoln's speech.
What is (How long is) two minutes?
The center of slavery. (Without this it could not function)
What is racism
What is sufferage?
The party that wanted to compromise between slavery and no slavery.
What is the Constitutional Union party?
The state where Fort Sumter was located. (Bragging points if you know the town)
What is Charleston, South Carolina?
A word for an eloquent or skilled public speaker.
What is an Orator?
Broad judements about people that are not based on facts.
What is a prejudice?
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
One of the competitors against the Republican Candidate.
Who was (any one) John breckinridge, Stephen Douglas, or John Bell?
What happened on April 14th, 1861.
What is when Fort Sumter was surrendered?
The reason Lincoln gave a speech.
What is the Battle of Getysburg, one of the bloodiest battles of the civil war?
True or False?
Slavery Affected only slaves and slave owners.
False, Slavery affected everyone.
The inventor of the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
Two things the Republican party was made of.
What are (any two) Former whigs, free-soilers, democrats, and know-nothings?
What is Kentucky?
The amount of casualties in the battle of Gettysburg.
What is 51,000?
Three ways to passively resist slave owners.
What are (any three) breaking tools, pretending to be sick, working slowly, and learning to read?
Who was Dred Scott?