Chapter 10 Section 4 Outline PDF

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Ch 10 Death and Dying...

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10.4 Outline: Lincoln, Secession, and War 1. What event brought the crisis of the time to the forefront of the United States? 2. What event led to a lack of confidence in the government for the North? 3. What did Jefferson Davis and the southern states push for regarding the Constitution and its powers? 4. Even non-slave owners felt how about slave legislation? 5. Slavery would eventually do what to the Democrats? 6. Whom did the southern Democrats respond to the selection of Stephen A. Douglas with? 7. What was the Constitutional Union Party? 8. Being to _______________ cost Seward the Republican nomination that was won by _________________. 9. Similar to the state governments in the South, the Republicans supported states’ __________________. 10. Lincoln’s win was remarkable considering he ________________________________________________. 11. Lincoln’s win cemented the South’s idea that they had no _________________ in the government. 12. _______________________ would lead the secession charge and be first to secede. 13. Why did the 1st state choose to secede? 14. How many states were part of the Confederate States of America at its start? 15. What was the key issue that was stressed in the new nation’s constitution? 16. Describe the last efforts to keep the Union whole. Plan’s name _________________________________ Details included:

17. What did the outgoing President before Lincoln have to say about the secession efforts? 18. What was Lincoln’s major concern and goal upon being sworn in? 19. Forts and arsenals in the south had what immediately happen to them? 20. Lincoln’s first major decision as President was to do what? 21. How was Lincoln in a no- win situation? 22. What did Lincoln declare had occurred with the events of Fort Sumter?

Critical Thinking: 1.

Was secession the only option for the South?

2. How did the election of 1860 increase sectional tension?

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Why did the southern states secede?...