Ch. 16.3

Why wasn't the Democratic party able to win the election of 1860?

• Couldn't agree on a single candidate
• They all voted for Lincoln
• Most of them seceded before the vote
• None of the above

A last-ditch effort to save the Union was the 

• Crittenden Plan
• Lincoln Compromise
• Wilmot Proviso
• resupply of Ft. Sumter

In December 1860, President Buchanan told Congress that he ____.

• would not run for another term as President
• had no official word about how many states had seceded
  
• would force the border states to remain in the Union
• had no power to stop states from seceding
  

What event led to secession?

• Lincoln's election as president
• The Dred Scott Decision
• the attack of Ft. Sumter
• the raid at Harper's Ferry

The first state to secede was

• South Carolina
• Virginia
• Alabama
• Mississippi

Southern states justified leaving the union with the notion of

• compromise.
• justification.
  
• ordination.
  
• states’ rights.
  

What did the southern states call themselves?

• Confederate States of America
• Union States of America
• Southern States of America
• Slavery States of America

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• John Bell
• Preston Brooks

Lincoln responded to a message from the commander of Fort Sumter by ____

• sending three regiments of Union soldiers
• sending a fleet of U.S. Navy ships
• sending unarmed men with supplies for the fort
  
• sending a letter to Jefferson Davis

What was the immediate cause of the Civil War? 

• attack of Ft. Sumter
• Lincoln's election 
• Bleeding Kansas
• the raid at Harper's Ferry