Vocab
to find reason to support
Justify
Republican Party Candidate 1860
Abraham Lincoln
How many states left Abraham Lincoln off their ballot?
10
Dec. 20, 1860 _____________ voted to secede
South Carolina
3 Causes of the Civil War:
Sectionalism (regional differences)
Debate over slavery
State's Rights
The North saw John Brown as a what?
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Where was Fort Sumter located?
Charleston, South Carolina
Texas, Ala. Louisiana, Miss, GA, FL voted to secede in what year and month?
February 1861
What Political Party was started by Abolitionist in 1848?
Free Soil Party
Withdrawal
Secession
Southern Democrat Party Candidate 1860
John Breckinrdidge
What marked beginning of Civil War?
Attack on Fort Sumter
After the attack on Fort Sumter
What happened in the Dred Scott case?
Chief Justice Roger B Taney said slaves were property
individual states are independent and have the right to control their most important affairs
State's Rights
Northern Democrat Party Candidate 1860
Stephen Douglas
How many electoral votes did Lincoln get?
180
What set up a balance of free states and slave states?
Missouri Compromise
Who was President before Abraham Lincoln?
James Buchanan
Stephen Douglas called this giving people the power to vote
Popular Sovereignty
Constitution Union Party Candidate 1860
John Bell
Southerners believed that Lincoln’s election meant:
the South no longer had a voice in the National gov’t
What act led to the beginning of the conflict in Kansas?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Fugitive Slave Act did what?
People found guilty of helping escaped slaves could be fined or arrested