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| What happened after John Brown's death? |
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| The North and South argued even more about slavery. |
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| Who ran from the republican party in the election of 1860? |
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| Who ran in the Northern Democrats for the 1860 election? |
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| Who ran for the Southern Democrats in the 1860 election? |
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| Why did Lincoln win the election of 1860? |
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Because he got 1/2 the vote, and the democrats which had to memebers got 1/2 the vote each AL: 40% JB: 30% SD: 30% |
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| T/F Lincoln won the 1860 election with only votes from the northern states. |
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| What did Lincoln promise to slavery? |
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| That he would not disturb it, but not let it spread |
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| Which state was the first to leave the union? |
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| What did John Crittenden try to do to stop more states from seceding? |
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| tried to make a last minute compromise |
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| What was John Crittenden's proposal? |
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| that slavery below the Mason Dixon Line would be protected. |
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| Why did the South not agree with John Crittenden's proposal? |
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| Because they have agreed to spit on every compromise made by the North. |
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| Why did the North not agree with John Crittenden's proposal? |
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| because they had just won an election stating that slavery would not be extended into territories. |
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| When other states decided to join with South Carolina, what did they call themselves? |
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| The Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy |
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| Who was the president of the Confederacy? |
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| What were the states' rights? |
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| rights by states saying that they could supercede the federal government if they wanted to |
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| Why did the states secede? |
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| because they felt the North wasn't obeying the constitution because they never really passed the Fugitive Act and the South didn't feel they had equal rights in territories. |
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| T/F ALL people in the South thought they should secede? |
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| False, some people in states that seceded were sad because the Union was breaking apart. |
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| Why did some North abolitionists believe the South should just secede? |
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| they thought that if the union had to be kept together on obeying slavery, then let them secede. |
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| What did Lincoln emphasize about the South becoming their own country? |
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| he said that the Confederacy never existed, it was just a rebellion in the South |
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| After Lincoln's inauguration, what Fort off of Virginia requested supplies? |
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What did Lincoln only send to Fort Sumter? |
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| What happened before the supplies arrived to Fort Sumter? |
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| The Confederacy attacked it |
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| Who was the first to start the Civil war? Union or Confederacy? |
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| What action did Lincoln take after it was being attacked? |
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| sent 75,000 troops to help end the rebellion. |
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| T/F Even though the Sumter attack was happening, there were still states in the Union that were slave. |
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