Secession

Which of these people ran for the Republican Party?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Stephen A. Douglas
• John Breckinridge

The Election of 1860 was won by the...

• Republican Party
• Northern Democratic Party
• Southern Democratic Party
• Constitutional Union Party

The first state to leave the Union after the Election of 1860 was...

• South Carolina
• North Carolina
• Georgia
• Mississippi

The issue __ created a break in the Democratic Party during the 1860 presidential election.

• slavery
• populous
• Republican
• secession

Even though his name was not on the ballot in most Southern states, Lincoln was elected U.S. president because the North was more

• secession
• populous
• federalist
• slavery

After the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, the Southern states debated the question of __, or withdrawing from the Union.

• secession
• populous
• slavery
• federalist

Which was the first state to vote to secede from the Union?

• Georgia 
• Maryland
• Missouri
• South Carolina

Who was the first president of the Confederate States of America?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Robert E. Lee
• Jefferson Davis
• Stephen Douglas

Which of these concepts did secessionists use to support their views?

• constitutionalism
• states' rights
• popular sovereignty
• federalism

Who was the abolitionist who raided the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia and further heightened sectionalism by adding to the slave owner's fear of a revolt?

• John Brown
• Dred Scott
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Andrew Jackson