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UNIT 5: THE CIVIL WAR
The Crisis Deepens (p. 494-498)
1. When the Whig Party split, what political party was formed in 1854?
2. What was the main goal of this new political party?
3. Who was this new party’s first candidate for President in 1856?
4. Who won the 1856 Presidential election?
5. Who defeated Abraham Lincoln in 1858 in the election for Illinois Senator?
6. Why did Lincoln lose the Illinois Senator election?
7. Who was John Brown?
a. What did he do that was against the law?
b. What happened to him?
8. Define the term abolitionist.
9. Who was the Republican candidate for President in the 1860 election?
The Coming of the Civil War (p. 499-503)
10. Why did the Democratic Party split in 1860?
11. What did Lincoln’s victory in the 1860 Presidential election mean to the South?
12. Define the term secede.
13. Which state was the first to secede from the United States of America?
14. Define the term accommodation.
15. What was the name of the new nation formed by the seceding states?
16. Who was the President of this new nation?
17. What did the seceding states take control of within their borders?
18. Define the term civil war.
19. What event marked the beginning of America’s Civil War?
20. On what date did America’s Civil War begin?
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