Sectional Policies, the Election of 1860, and the Collapse of the Union

Using this map, answer the following question.

In which area did Lincoln receive the most votes?

• North

• South

• Border States

• Territories

Using this map, answer the following question.

Which candidate carried the South in the Election of 1860?

• Bell

• Lincoln

• Douglas

• Breckenridge

Using this map, answer the following question.

Which political party was most popular in the North?

• Northern Democrats

• Southern Democrats

• Republicans

• Constitutional Union

Using this map, answer the following question.

What percentage of the popular vote did Lincoln receive in the Election of 1860?

• 13

• 29

• 40

• 18

What caused the crisis in Kansas that resulted in two competing state governments?

• Congress's decision to delay statehood for Kansas until a compromise could be reached

• the decision to allow residents to vote on whether Kansas would be a slave or free state

• the admission of Kansas into the Union without mentioning slavery

• Missouri's desire to annex Kansas as part of it own state

Anger over the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the formation of what political party?

• the Whigs

• the Anti-Whigs

• the Republicans

• the Democrats

What factor allowed Abraham Lincoln to win the presidential election in 1860?

• Lincoln's ability to win Southern voters

• the division in the Democratic Party between the North and South

• the Dred Scott decision

• the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted what reaction in the Southern states?

• They annexed much of the Western territories.

• They protested in Congress.

• They held their own election for president.

• They seceded from the Union.

Six weeks after Lincoln was elected the South began talking of withdrawing from the Union. This is called.....

• Succeeded

• Withdrawing

• Secession

• Succession

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

• Harpers Ferry

• Fort Sumter

• Washington, DC

• Richmond