The Election of 1860 and Secession

The attitudes of the Southern states depicted in the political cartoon contributed to which of the following developments in the mid-nineteenth century?

• the start of a war between the Union and the Confederate states

• the passage of legislation to support the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad

• the acquisition of Puerto Rico and Hawaii as American territories

• the expansion of the United States's boarders to the Pacific Ocean

Which of the following changes to the United States during the nineteenth century most directly contributed to the development depicted in the image?

• the abolition of slavery after the Emancipation Proclamation

• the election of Lincoln to the presidency in 1860

• the end to American participation in the Atlantic Slave Trade

• the closing of Southern ports to foreign trade

“Yesterday, November the 7th, will long be a memorable day in Charleston. The tea has been thrown overboard; the revolution of 1860 has been initiated. Intense though quiet excitement prevails throughout the community. The Government officials, as our columns will show, have resigned. . . . The Federal officers who have resigned their places are expected to address the meeting to assemble as soon as the Legislature shall have acted. Charleston is not behind the State, and will play her part in the grand drama now before us, as becomes her intelligence, her stake and her civilization. On every lip is the stern cry ‘vive la liberta!’”

-Source: The Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860

Which of the following developments best represents a logical extension of the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

• the introduction of the Homestead Act

• the passage of the Crittenden Project

• the secession of several southern states

• the demise of the Whig Party in the South

How did the Republican party react to the Fugitive slave act of 1850?

• they supported it and wanted the government to enforce it

• they opposed it and wanted the supreme court to strike it down

• they supported it but wanted the law to be left up to states to decide if they wanted to enforce it or not

• they neither supported nor opposed it

How did the Republicans respond to the Supreme Court decision on Dred Scott in 1857 handed down by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney?

• they fully supported the decision

• they were adamantly against the decison

• they supported parts of the decision

• they neither opposed nor supported the decision

What was the primary factor that helped Lincoln win the election of 1860?

• the population advantage in the North

• tariffs

• Lincoln's moderate views on slavery

• the population advantage in the South

Why did Lincoln gain the support of the Republican party?

• he was a political moderate that upheld anti-slavery viewpoints

• he supported secession

• he supported states right

• he sought a compromise with Stephen A. Douglas

The lack of votes Lincoln received in the south reflected

• the growing conflict about slavery in the North and the South

• conflicts after the war with Mexico

• the settlement out West

• the split of the Democratic party and the tensions arising there

How does the Democratic party calling the attack on Harpers Ferry “a natural, logical, inevitable result of doctrines and teachings of the Republican party” reflect the relationship between both parties?

• there was mutual respect even though they disagreed on issues

• generally, there was mistrust between both parties due to the growing tensions of the union

• both parties got along considering the Republican party was still new

• the Republican party despised the democratic party because they were the party with the most power

This political cartoon demonstrates

• the tension between the republicans and the democrats

• the effect the north and south conflict

• Abraham Lincoln winning the election due to the split in the Democratic party

• oppressing free blacks due to politics