Election of 1860

All of the three candidates below were a candidate for president EXCEPT:

• John Bell

• Stephen A. Douglas

• James K. Polk

• Abraham Lincoln

Both Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were candidates from this state:

• Illinois

• Massachusetts

• Louisiana

• Wisconsin

After the Democratic Party split, it ran a Northern Democrat, Stephen A. Douglas, and this person, a Southern Democrat:

• Henry Clay

• John C. Breckinridge

• Franklin Pierce

• John Bell

This was the first state to secede from the Union:

• North Carolina

• Texas

• South Carolina

• Texas

With the election victory of Lincoln, many in the South:

• Distrusted him

• Didn’t think he’d protect their rights

• Thought he’d begin a war with Britain

• Both: Distrusted him and didn't think he'd protected their rights

This candidate won three border states (KY, TN, & VA) and ran as a candidate of the Constitutional Union Party:

• Henry Clay

• John Bell

• John C. Breckinridge

• Franklin Pierce

By February 4, 1860, seven states had seceded, and on that date, they formed the:

• Confederate States of America

• United States of America

• New Southern States of America

• United Southern States of America

On the day after President Lincoln was inaugurated, he received word that Confederates were demanding the surrender of this fort, located in SC:

• Fort Lauderdale

• Fort Knox

• Fort Jamestown

• Fort Sumter

Abolition:

• a border between two countries

• devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole

• officially ending or stopping something : the act of abolishing something

• the refusal to obey the demands or commands of a government or occupying power, without resorting to violence or active measures of opposition

This individual was elected President of the Confederate States of America.

• General Lee

• Maxwell Smart

• Jefferson Davis

• John Bell