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| a tax placed on imported or exported goods |
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| What was the Republican Parties' main goal? |
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| Stop the western spread of slavery |
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| What did the Republican Party support? |
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Stop the spread of slavery
End slavery where it already existed
Higher tariff
Economic changes |
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| Why did the Democrats oppose the Republicans? |
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| Destroy the Southern economy which depended on foreign trade and slave labor |
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| What did the South feel that the Federal Government should NOT have power of? |
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States' Rights
Seceding from the Union |
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| What issues were strongly debated in the 1860 Presidential election? |
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States' rights
Seceding from the Union |
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| Where did the Democratic Party hold its convention? |
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| What caused the Southern delegates to leave the presidential election? |
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| The Northern delegates would not support slavery. |
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| Whom did the Democratic delegates who met in Baltimore, MD nominate for president? |
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| Senator Stephen A Douglas of Illinois |
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| Whom did the Republican delegates nominate for president? |
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| Whom did the Democratic delegates who met in Richmond, VA nominate for president? |
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| Vice-President John C Breckinridge |
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| Why was the Constitutional Union Party formed? |
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| They hoped to keep the Union together by getting enough votes to keep any candidate from receiving enough votes to win the election. Then the House of Representatives would chose the new President. |
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| Who tried to win the nomination of the Constitutional Union Party? |
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| Who won the nomination for the Constitutional Union Party? |
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| Vice-President John C. Breckenridge |
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| Who won the 1860 Presidential election? |
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| Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the US |
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| What was the first state to secede? |
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| What did Texans want to do the Houston wouldn't allow? |
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| They wanted to have a convention so that TX would vote on seceding. |
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| TX delegates voted 166 to 8 to secede. |
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| TX was the ___ state to secede. |
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| What did Governor Houston do to protest TX's secession? |
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| When he was called to take the oath of office, he didn't respond, so the office of Governor was declared vacant and Lieutenant Governor Edward Clark became the Governor |
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| What did Lincoln offer to give Houston to help TX stay in the Union? |
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