Name______

A Nation Divides

The Election of 1860 (page 478)

1. What happened to the Democratic Party when they held their convention in Charleston, South

Carolina?

2. Complete the chart with details about the candidates in the election of 1860.

Name Home State Political Party Position on Slavery

Abraham Lincoln

Stephen A. Douglas John Breckinridge

John Bell

3. Who won the Election of 1860? How did he win?

The South Reacts (page 479)

4. Many southerners felt that Lincoln’s election meant ______.

To them, the President and Congress were against ______especially ______. The governor of South Carolina wrote to other governors that if Lincoln won the

election it was the duty of the South to ______.

Secession (page479)

5. What did John Crittenden propose as a last ditch effort to try to save the Union?

6. What happened to Crittenden’s proposal? 7. What happened on December 20, 1860?

8. What six states followed in 1861?

The Confederacy (page 480)

9. Why did southerners say they had the right to secede? 10. How did Lincoln respond to secession?

11. What did the South call their new nation?

12. Who did they elect as their president? The Civil War Begins (page 480)

13. What did Lincoln say about a war in his inaugural address?

Lincoln’s Difficult Decision (page 481) 14. What dilemma did Lincoln face with federal forts in the South?

15. By April 1861, the Confederacy controlled ______.

The Union held only three forts off the coast of Florida and ______in South Carolina.

Bombardment of Fort Sumter (page 481)

16. When Lincoln learned that supplies were low at Fort Sumter, he told the governor he wanted to ship ______to the fort; NOT ______or ______.

17. On April 11, 1861, the Confederates demanded that the fort ______. Major Robert

Anderson (USA) ______. The ______

opened fire first. The Union troops ran out of ammunition quickly and on April 13, 1861

______. The ______had begun!!!