Chapter 14 Lesson 3 Quiz: Secession and War

The issue of ___________ created a break in the Democratic Party during the 1860 presidental election.

• three

• Republican

• slavery

• secession

• populous

Lincoln and ___________ other candidates ran for president in 1860.

• three

• Republican

• slavery

• secession

• populous

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

• three

• Republican

• slavery

• secession

• populous

White Southerners feared that the 1860 victories by Lincoln's ________ Party would result in slave revolts.

• three

• Republican

• slavery

• secession

• populous

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

• three

• Republican

• slavery

• secession

• populous

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

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Stephen Douglas

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

• constitutionalism

• federalism

• popular sovereignty

• states's rights

In Lincoln's first Inaugural Address, he_____.

• declared the Southern states to be enemies.

• recognized the South as a separate country.

• vowed to hold federal property in the South.

• repealed slavery in the Southern States.

Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

• attack on Fort Sumter

• Lincoln-Douglas debate

• Lincoln inauguration

• secession of South Carolina