APUSH 5.7

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What contributed to Lincoln's victory in the election of 1860 EXCEPT: divisions within the Republican Party, the breakup of the Democratic Party, four candidates received electoral votes, support for Lincoln in the North?

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divisions within the Republican Party

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Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

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they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

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Which event was the immediate cause of the secession of several Southern states from the Union in 1860? Options: the Dred Scott decision, which declared that all prior compromises on the extension of slavery into the territories were unconstitutional, the Missouri Compromise, which kept an even balance between the number of free and slave states, the raid on the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, which was led by militant abolitionist John Brown, the election of President Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery into the territories

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the election of President Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery into the territories

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Violent white abolitionist from New York responsible for Bleeding Kansas, the raid on Harpers Ferry and was motivated by God to end slavery

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John Brown

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Six weeks after Lincoln was elected the South began talking of withdrawing from the Union. This is called.....

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Secession

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Which man was NOT a candidate of the 1860 presidential election?

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John C. Calhoun

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During the Election of 1860...

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The Democratic party was split over slavery

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Where were the first shots fired in the Civil War?

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Fort Sumter