Electoral College
This is the magic number of votes needed to win the Presidency
What is 270?
Winner of the 1860 election
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is Wheeling?
First state to leave the union and start the Confederacy
What is South Carolina?
The Father of WV
Who is Francis Pierpont?
This is the total number of electors in the electoral college
What is 538?
This party could not agree on their slavery platform
What is the Democrat party?
WV was the ____th state to enter the Union (looking for a number).
What is 35?
First DATE of the Civil War
What is April 12, 1861?
The first governor of WV
Who is Arthur Boreman?
How many electoral votes does WV have? Explain this number.
What is 5? 2 represent the number of senators, 3 is the number of reps in the House that WV has
This party did not take a stand on slavery.
What is the Constitutional Union party?
The three issues discussed at the 1861 Constitutional convention
What are state name, state boundaries, slavery?
These 6 states followed South Carolina in seceeding.
What are, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas?
Name of the "new" Virginia before it became West Virginia
What is the Reorganized Government of Virginia?
What is the term for an elector who does NOT vote in accordance with how their state voted?
What is a faithless elector?
Lincoln's platform on slavery was to ban it in the __________________.
What are territories?
This is the reason that Congress rejected WV statehood at first.
Their position on slavery was not clear.
This is the reason Lincoln refused to withdraw troops from Ft. Sumter when the Confederate government demanded he do so.
Florida has 29 electoral votes, therefore, there are this many members in the House of Representatives.
What is 27?
Which two states are the only ones that split their votes, instead of giving them all to the person who won the popular vote?
What are Maine and Nebraska?
List all 4 candidates in the 1860 election AND their parties.
Lincoln, Republican
Stephen Douglas, Democrat
John Bell, Constitutional Union
John C. Breckenridge, Democrat
Describe the Willey Amendment
All slaves under 21 as of July 4, 1863 would be free when they turned 21. This allowed for gradual emancipation of slaves so that it wouldn't impact the economy.
Why Governor Letcher refused to send troops to help Lincoln in South Carolina
What is...
He felt that the request was denying Virginia their state's rights. (Do you remember what state's rights are?)
Three potential names for the new state, all got rejected
What is Kanawha, New Virginia, Allegheny?