Block 5 Part 1 STAAR® Blitz: Sectionalism Assignment

First battle of the Civil War

• Fort Sumter
• Abraham Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis
• Popular sovereignty
• Republican Party

Elected president of the U.S. in 1860

• Abraham Lincoln
• Fort Sumter
• Jefferson Davis
• Popular sovereignty
• Republican Party

Powers held by state governments rather than the federal government

• States’ rights
• Abraham Lincoln
• Fort Sumter
• Jefferson Davis
• Popular sovereignty

People determined whether to allow Kansas to be a free or slave state

• Popular sovereignty
• Abraham Lincoln
• Fort Sumter
• Jefferson Davis
• Republican Party

Opposed the spread of slavery into territories

• Republican Party
• Abraham Lincoln
• Fort Sumter
• Jefferson Davis
• Popular sovereignty

Elected president of the Confederacy

• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• Fort Sumter
• Popular sovereignty
• Republican Party

Formal withdrawal from the Union

• Secede
• Abraham Lincoln
• Fort Sumter
• Jefferson Davis
• Popular sovereignty

Hot Text - Answer the question below. This excerpt is from Lincoln’s first inaugural address. Determine which parts of the excerpt explain Lincoln’s ideas about the Union. Select TWO correct answers.

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How did the plantation system influence economic development in the North?

What happened after the election of Abraham Lincoln?