The Election of 1860

The 19th Presidential Election directly led to what?

Name two reasons why the nation was divided.  Choose two.

• Unbalanced Senate

• Factory system in the North

• Expansion of slavery out West

• Slaveowners' Rights

Who were the fire-eaters?

• Anti-slavery representatives that were mad

• Pro-slavery delegates that joined a circus

• Pro-slavery representatives that wanted to secede and start their own country.

• Slaveowners that wanted their slaves back

The remaining Democrats who were left after the fire eaters formed the Southern Democratic Party elected ____ ____ as their candidate.

Who were the presidential nominees for the Northern and Southern Democratic parties?

• Joseph Lane -Southern Democrat

• John C Breckinridge-Southern Democrat

• Stephen Douglas- Northern Democrat

• Abraham Lincoln-Northern Republican

True or False: Both Oregon and Minnesota were now states.

• True

• False

Why was Lincoln already famous?

Why did Abraham Lincoln win the Republican Party"s nomination?

• He was Conservative

• He was a radical Liberalist

• He was the most moderate

• He was a moderate Democrat

What did the Constitutional Union Party focus on as their platform (what they wanted to accomplish)?

• Leave the Union alone, Chnage the Constitution

• Slavery to be abolished and the Constitution to remain as it is

• Slavery as it is; the Constitution as it is

• The Union as it is, and the Constitution as it is.

What was Lincoln's stance, or viewpoint,  on slavery, and how did the South react to it?

• He promised that he didn't want to ban slavery completely but many Southerners didn't believe him and threatened to secede.

• He promised that he would ban slavery in every state and the Southerners were mad at him.

• He promised that he would ban slavery in the North only and allow the South to remain the same and the Southerners liked what they heard.

• He promised that he didnt want to ban slavery completely and the Southerners believed him.