<p> Name______</p><p>A Nation Divides</p><p>The Election of 1860 (page 478)</p><p>1. What happened to the Democratic Party when they held their convention in Charleston, South </p><p>Carolina?</p><p>2. Complete the chart with details about the candidates in the election of 1860.</p><p>Name Home State Political Party Position on Slavery</p><p>Abraham Lincoln</p><p>Stephen A. Douglas John Breckinridge</p><p>John Bell</p><p>3. Who won the Election of 1860? How did he win?</p><p>The South Reacts (page 479)</p><p>4. Many southerners felt that Lincoln’s election meant ______. </p><p>To them, the President and Congress were against ______especially ______. The governor of South Carolina wrote to other governors that if Lincoln won the </p><p> election it was the duty of the South to ______.</p><p>Secession (page479)</p><p>5. What did John Crittenden propose as a last ditch effort to try to save the Union?</p><p>6. What happened to Crittenden’s proposal? 7. What happened on December 20, 1860?</p><p>8. What six states followed in 1861?</p><p>The Confederacy (page 480)</p><p>9. Why did southerners say they had the right to secede? 10. How did Lincoln respond to secession?</p><p>11. What did the South call their new nation?</p><p>12. Who did they elect as their president? The Civil War Begins (page 480)</p><p>13. What did Lincoln say about a war in his inaugural address?</p><p>Lincoln’s Difficult Decision (page 481) 14. What dilemma did Lincoln face with federal forts in the South?</p><p>15. By April 1861, the Confederacy controlled ______. </p><p>The Union held only three forts off the coast of Florida and ______in South Carolina.</p><p>Bombardment of Fort Sumter (page 481)</p><p>16. When Lincoln learned that supplies were low at Fort Sumter, he told the governor he wanted to ship ______to the fort; NOT ______or ______. </p><p>17. On April 11, 1861, the Confederates demanded that the fort ______. Major Robert </p><p>Anderson (USA) ______. The ______</p><p> opened fire first. The Union troops ran out of ammunition quickly and on April 13, 1861 </p><p>______. The ______had begun!!!</p>