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US - Chap.12.5
Study Guide for Chapter 12.5 "Secession and War"
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the burning question in the months before the election of 1860? | Would the Union break up |
| Who was the Presidential candidate for the Northern Democratic Party? | Stephen Douglas |
| Who was the Presidential candidate for the Constitutional Union Party? | John Bell |
| Who was the Presidential candidate for the Southern Democratic Party? | John Breckinridge |
| Who was the Presidential candidate for the Republican Party? | Abraham Lincoln |
| What was the stance on slavery for the Northern Democratic Party? | Supported Popular Sovereignty |
| What was the stance on slavery for the Southern Democratic Party? | Supported the Dred Scott decision and Upheld slavery |
| What was the stance on slavery for the Constitutional Union Party? | Took no position on Slavery |
| What was the stance on slavery for the Republican Party? | Slavery should be left undisturbed where it existed, but should be excluded from the Territories |
| What four things were proof that the vote in the Election of 1860 was purely along sectional lines. | Lincoln’s name did not appear on the ballot in most Southern states Lincoln won every Northern state Breckinridge swept the Southern states Bell took most of the Border states |
| Even though the Republican Party promised not to disturb slavery where it already existed, Southerners feared… | that the Republican administration would not protect Southern Rights |
| What was the first Southern state to secede? | South Carolina |
| What was the compromise proposed by the Crittenden amendments? | A provision to protect slavery south of 36०30’ latitude in all territories now held or hereafter acquired |
| Why was the Crittenden Amendment unacceptable to the Republicans? | They had just won an election on the principle that slavery would not be extended in the territories |
| What was the Southern reaction to the Crittenden Amendment? | They rejected the plan "We spit on your compromise" |
| Which six states seceded in February of 1861? | Texas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Florida Georgia |
| Who was elected President of the Confederacy? | Jefferson Davis |
| Explain the argument the Southerners used to justify their secession? | States had voluntarily chosen to enter the Union The constitution was a contract among the independent states Refusing to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act (violated contract) Denied the Southern states equal rights in the territories (forbid slavery) |
| Who saw the secession as a “fearful calamity” upon the United States? | Robert E. Lee |
| Why did some Northern abolitionists prefer to allow the Southern states to secede? | If the Union could only be kept together by compromising on slavery, then let the Union be destroyed |
| What was President Buchanan’s response the secession of the southern states? | The Southern states had no right to secede, but he had no power to stop them |
| Shortly after Lincoln was inaugurated President, the South decided to do what? | test him (test his authority as President) |
| What dilemma did President Lincoln face when Confederates seized U.S. forts in their states? | He didn’t want to start a war by taking the forts back… but allowing them to keep them would amount to admitting their right to secede |
| Why did President Lincoln send an unarmed expedition to supply Fort Sumter? | He did not want to start a war |
| What did the Confederates decide to do when Lincoln sent an unarmed supply ship to Fort Sumter? | They decided to attack Fort Sumter |
| When the confederates attacked Fort Sumter, how did President Lincoln respond to this action? | He issued a call for 75,000 troops to fight to save the Union |
| What was the reaction by the southern states to President Lincoln’s call for 75,000 northern volunteers to save the Union? | Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas seceded Volunteers quickly signed up to fight |
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