Candidates
He was a senator from Illinois
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln wanted to stop the spread of slavery into these areas.
What are the western territories?
This is the number of electoral votes Abraham Lincoln received
What is 180 votes?
This happened shortly after Lincoln’s election
What is South Carolina seceeding?
This party nominated Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election.
What is the Republican Party?
This candidate represented the Southern Democratic Party
Who is John C. Breckinridge?
This is the meaning of “popular sovereignty” in the 1860 election
What is allowing each territory to vote on whether to allow slavery?
This is the number of Southern states won by Lincoln
This is the number of states that seceded before Lincoln took office
What is 7?
This party split into Northern and Southern factions before the election.
What is the Democratic Party?
John Bell represented this party
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
This is why Lincoln was considered a threat by many Southerners
What is they thought he would abolish slavery?
This is who came in second in the electoral vote count
Who is John C. Breckinridge?
This is what the Southern states formed after seceding
What is the Confederate States of America
This party nominated John Bell and tried to avoid the slavery issue by focusing on preserving the Union.
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
This candidate believed strongly in popular sovereignty
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
This is the main economic difference between the North and South
What is the North was more industrial; the South was agricultural?
This region did not register a single vote for Lincoln
What is the south/slave states?
This is who the Southern states felt, even though Lincoln said he wouldn’t abolish slavery
What is they did not trust Lincoln?
The division of this political party helped Lincoln win the election with a minority of the popular vote
What is the Democratic Party?
This former Vice President represented the Southern Democrats and supported slavery in the territories.
Who is John C. Breckinridge?
This is what did many Southern leaders threatened to do if Lincoln won
What is secede from the Union?
This is how Lincoln won despite receiving less than 40% of the popular vote
What is the electoral college vote?
The 1860 election made this long-standing national conflict unavoidable.
What is the Civil War?