(6) Events Leading to Secession and War

All of the following were a presidential candidate in the 1860 election:

Abraham Lincoln Stephen Douglass John Breckinridge

vice-president of the Confederacy

Alexander Stephens

Southern states that did not secede

Border states

extend the 36° 30' line to the Pacific Ocean

Crittenden Compromise

All of the following were a presidential candidate in the 1860 election except:

Dred Scott

first shots of the Civil War

Fort Sumter

commander of Fort Sumter

Robert Anderson

first to secede from the Union

South Carolina

A few days after Lincoln's victory, South Carolina's legislature ordered an election of delegates to a convention to decide the state's future course. On December 20, this convention voted unanimously to secede from the Union.

True

Anderson refused to surrender, and an attack was launched on the fort by the Confederates under General Pierre G. T. Beauregard. At 4:30 A.M. on April 12, 1861, the first shot of the Civil War was fired. This bombardment lasted for thirty-four hours before Major Anderson was forced to surrender.

True

By February 1, 1861, conventions in Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and Louisiana had followed South Carolina's lead and seceded from the Union also.

True

John J. Crittenden, a senator from Kentucky, proposed what is known as the Crittenden Compromise. He suggested that the Missouri Compromise line of 36° 30' be extended to California; that slavery north of this line be prohibited, and slavery south of this line be protected, by Federal law. He also suggested that slavery be permitted in those states where it already existed. Many of those seriously interested in compromise supported Crittenden's idea, but radical opposition in both the North and the South defeated it.

True

On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the sixteenth president of the United States.

True

The second attempt at compromise involved twenty-one states led by Virginia. Each of these states, some free and some slave, sent delegates to a peace conference in Washington, D.C. This convention suggested terms similar to the Crittenden Compromise, but all was to no avail once Jefferson Davis announced that the Confederacy would not consider any plans for reconstructing the Union.

True

formed from five western counties

West Virginia

Select the THREE positions that were included in the 1860 Republican platform.

denounced John Brown's raid slavery could continue where it already existed no slavery in new territories