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The Election of 1860
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Candidate which opposed the extention of slavery into the territories | Abraham Lincoln |
| Candidate who said the most important issue was preserving the Union, not slavery | John Bell |
| His party favored a protective tariff | Abraham Lincoln |
| His party favored the Homestead Act | Abraham Lincoln |
| His party favored the building of the transcontinental railroad | Abraham Lincoln |
| Candidate who won the most Southern electoral votes | John C, Breckinridge |
| Candidate who won the most electoral votes | Abraham Lincoln |
| Candidate who believed that the existence of slavery in the territories should be determined by popular sovereignty | Stephen A. Douglas |
| Determines who wins a presidential election | electoral vote |
| Cast by voters | popular vote |
| A statement of the ideas and beliefs of a political party | platform |
| A meeting of delegates to nominate their party's presidential candidate | convention |
| the principle by which an issue is decided by a vote of the people | popular sovereignty |
| Three things which caused tensions between the North and South just before the election of 1860 | Bleeding Kansas, John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, and Dred Scott Decision |
| Minimum number of electoral votes for a state according the the Constitution | 3 |
| Main reason Lincoln won the 1860 election | Split in the Democratic Party |
| First candidate in U. S. history to actively campaign for the presidency | Stephen A. Douglas |
| One of the main reasons Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election | The Democrats spit into several political parties |
| U. S. regions in which the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln won large numbers of votes in the 1860 election | North and West |
| What type of vote really determines who wins a presidential election in the United States? | electoral vote |
| What is the priciple by which an issue, such as slavery, is decided by a vote of the people? | popular sovereignty |
| How are the state's electors chosen? | By each state's popular vote |
| What is a meeting of delegates to nominate their party's presidential candidate? | convention |
| What is a statement of the ideas and beliefs of a political party? | platform |
| Lincoln, Breckinridge, Douglas, Bell?? Which candidate opposed the extention of slaves into the territories? | Lincoln |
| Lincoln, Breckinridge, Douglas, Bell? Which candidate won the elctoral vote? | Lincoln |
| In the 1860 election, where did Abraham Lincoln want to ban slavery? | territories |
| How did President James Buchannan react to the secession of southern states following Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860? | He did nothing. |
| How did Abraham Lincoln feel about the slavery issue in the 1860 election? | He did not want the extension of slavery into the territories; he was personally against slavery |
| How did Stephem Douglas feel about slavery in the 1860 election? | He believed in popular sovereignty. |
| How did John Breckinridge feel about slavery? | It should be allowed everywhere; including the territories |
| How did John Bell feel about slavery in the 1860 election? | It was not as important as the preservation of the Union (United States). |
| What was the political party of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election? | Republican Party |
| What was the political party of Stephen Douglas in the 1860 election? | Northern Democrat |
| What was the political party of John Breckinridge in the 1860 election? | Southern Democrat |
| What was the political party of John Bell In the 1860 election? | Constitutional Union Party |
| What was Abraham Lincoln's home state? | Illinois |
| What was Stephen Douglas' home state? | Illinois |
| What was John Breckinridge's home state? | Kentucky |
| What was John Bell's home state? | Tennessee |
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