What was the name of the nation the seceded states created?
The Confederate States of America
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Why was Lincoln reluctant to give up Fort Sumter?
Lincoln feared giving it up would show weakness and encourage further secession
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Why did southern states secede after Lincoln's election?
They believed that Lincoln's was opposed to slavery.
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Why did the South decide to open fire on Fort Sumter?
Confederate leaders decided to capture the fort while it was isolated
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Which groups supported the newly formed Republican Party?
Northern Democrats and Free-Soil Party
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Where did the leaders of the seven seceding states meet?
They met in Montgomery, Alabama
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How did Northerners react to John Brown's raid?
The North praised the man and thought of him as a hero
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What brought Abraham Lincoln back into politics?
His opposition to Kansas-Nebraska Act
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What was the name of the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
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How do you think Harriet Beecher Stowe reacted to the verdict of the Dred Scott case?
Furious, angry, sad, disheartened, disbelief
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What were two effects of Lincoln's warning to the South?
-the seceding states took over US property -South Carolina cut off food supplies to Fort Sumter -Lincoln sent food to the fort -Confederate fired on Fort Sumter
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Lincoln served in the state legislature and was a Congressman as a Whig, before running for president.
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Who was Roger B. Taney?
Chief Justice who wrote a controversial Supreme Court decision in 1857