Presidential candidates
The Republican Candidate was?
Abraham Lincoln
The book that she’d light on the true torment of slavery
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This candidate won the least amount of states
John Bell
Which party supported slavery
Democratic
This party split into three different parties
Democratic
The candidate believed in popular sovereignty was?
Stephan A. Douglas
This caused an imbalance in slave and free states
Missouri Compromise
The candidate who received the most electoral votes
Abraham Lincoln
The south used slaves as
Free labor
The Southern Democratic candidate was
John Breckinridge
The constitutional union party was formed after the Democratic Party split, the constitutional union parties candidate was?
John Bell
In this Supreme Court case it was ruled that this man could not be free because he was “not” a person
Dred Scott
How many states did Breckenridge win?
11
A former slave and major advocate for the Underground Railroad, also helped free 100’s of slaves
Harriet Tubman
How many electoral college votes did the constitutional union receive
39
This candidate ran for the southern Democratic Party, and was pro slav.
John Breckinridge
This person started an army full of free slaves and abolitionists
Harper’s Ferry
Secede
The only state in the north to have slaves in 1850
New Jersey
The Republicans wanted what to be stopped
Slavery
Due to his Blue-Colored past Abraham Lincoln was known as
The Rail-Splitter
This went against the Missouri compromise, and caused many acts of violence
Kansas-Nebraska act
why was the election so important
The Nation was on the brink of a civil war
This state at one point had a higher slave population than it did of the White’s in the state
Virginia
What political party ended up winning the presidential election
Republican Party