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The Threat of Secession

Name: _____________________   Period: ____
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The Constitutional Unionists nominated this man from Tennessee to be their presidential candidate in the election of 1860. (two words)
Although he got much less than half the popular vote, Lincoln had been _________ elected president.
This system was at the root of the difficulties between the (northern and southern) sections.
Before the 1860 presidential convention, this New York senator seemed to be the person most likely to get the Republican nomination.
The Republican presidential convention took place in this city in Illinois.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. _____ commanded the marine detachment that pinned down John Brown's forces in the armory.
This political party's platform was simple: They stood for "the _____________ and the Union."
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This man was never punished for his part in the Pottawatomie massacre.
To broaden the Republican appeal, party leaders drafted economic reforms to go along with their demand that slavery be kept out of the territories. The called for a ____________ Act giving 160 acres of land to anyone who would settle on it.
As the presidential election of 1860 drew near, this political party became even more sharply divided.
Many pro-slavery radicals had threatened that the southern states would ________ from the Union and set up an independent country of their own if a Republican was elected president.
John Brown became a hero to these people and to many other northerners and considered him a noble freedom fighter.
This doctrine was first argued by Jefferson in the 1790s. (two words)
This man won a solid majority of the electoral votes and became president of the United States in 1860.
The goal of John Brown's 18-man army was a United States government armory in the town of _______ ________. (two words)
The ideas of _____________ and secession were a challenge to the basic tenets of the Constitution.
After John Brown captured the armory at Harpers Ferry, he captured two local slaveholders. One of these was Lewis ___________, a great-grandnephew of George Washington.
The Republican Party also urged government support for a _______ to the Pacific and higher tariffs on manufactured goods in order to protect manufacturers from foreign competition.
As the presidential campaign progress, this Senator from Illinois spoke not for himself but for preserving the Union in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.