Why did the South decide to open fire on Fort Sumter?
Confederate leaders decided to capture the fort while it was isolated
What was the name of the nation the seceded states created?
The Confederate States of America
Why did the South and North choose separate candidates from each region?
The North and South felt they couldn't trust a candidate from the other region.
Which groups supported the newly formed Republican Party?
Northern Democrats and Free-Soil Party
Why was Lincoln reluctant to give up Fort Sumter?
Lincoln feared giving it up would show weakness and encourage further secession
Where did the leaders of the seven seceding states meet?
They met in Montgomery, Alabama
What position did Douglas take on slavery?
He thought voters should decide
Lincoln served in the state legislature and was a Congressman as a Whig, before running for president.
True or False
True
Why did southern states secede after Lincoln's election?
They believed that Lincoln's was opposed to slavery.
Why did Dred Scott claim he was no longer enslaved?
He had lived in places were slavery was illegal
Who did the southerners agree with more after the Lincoln-Douglas debate?
Douglas
How do you think Harriet Beecher Stowe reacted to the verdict of the Dred Scott case?
Furious, angry, sad, disheartened, disbelief
What was the main goal of the Republican Party?
To stop the expansion of slavery
What brought Abraham Lincoln back into politics?
His opposition to Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who was Roger B. Taney?
Chief Justice who wrote a controversial Supreme Court decision in 1857
What was the name of the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Who won the election of 1856?
James Buchanan was elected President
How did Northerners react to John Brown's raid?
The North praised the man and thought of him as a hero
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
Who was Dred Scott?
An enslaved person who sued for his freedom
What was Abraham Lincoln's stance about slavery during the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
He thought that slavery shouldn't be spread to the newly admitted states and that it will die out on its own.
What event marked the beginning of the war between the North and South?
The attack on Fort Sumter
Why was the attack on Fort Sumter so significant?
It was the first time the Confederates directly attacked a Union fort.
The Confederate Army isolated the soldiers at Fort Sumter, what does that mean?
They separated the soldiers there from supplies and support of the Union
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