5.7 Election of 1860

Formally withdrawing from the United States

• To Confederate
• Leaving
• Succession
• Secession

An Illinois lawyer who became the 16^th President of the United States

• Abraham Lincoln
• Stephen Douglas
• James Buchanan
• John C. Fremont

What state was first state to secede from the union?

• Georgia
• Alabama
• South Carolina
• North Carolina

As soon as Lincoln was declared the winner of the presidency, Southern states started to

• cry

• bomb the north

• free all their slaves

• secede

______________ was named the president of the Confederacy.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• Jefferson Davis

• Frederick Douglass

What does the green color on the map represent?

• The poorest states

• The Confederate states

• The coldest states

• the richest states

What was the main focus of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?

• Difference in views on slavery

• Economic policies

• Foreign relations

• Infrastructure development

What did the South fear would happen under Republican rule?

• End of slavery in the South

• Expansion of slavery into the territories

• Higher taxes

• Loss of states' rights

Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

• Lincoln's inauguration

• Declaration of secession by South Carolina

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Bombardment of Fort Sumter

What did President Lincoln try to reassure southerners about in his inaugural address?

• Protection of states' rights

• Abolition of slavery

• Higher taxes

• Infrastructure development