Democrat from Illinois

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Advocates Popular Sovereignty

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Famous quote: "I do not intend to make peace with my enemies, nor to make a concession of one iota of principle."

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From the video, one important thing to know about Stephen Douglas in terms of the election or his time as a politician is that he

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I feel the South / North / Both / Neither would have voted for him. One reason I think that is because

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Republican from Illinois

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Republican Party was formed on the idea that slavery should be abolished and that the union should be preserved at all costs.

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Famous quote: "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

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From the video, one important thing to know about Abraham Lincoln in terms of the election or his time as a politician is that he

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I feel the South / North / Both / Neither would have voted for him. One reason I think that is because

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How many electoral votes did Lincoln have?

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How many electoral votes did Douglas have?

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How many electoral votes did Breckinridge have?

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How many electoral votes did Bell have?

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For which candidate did most of the south vote?

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For which candidate most of the north vote?

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Who won the election?

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What is a piece of evidence that proves you are right to the previous question?

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Label:

Arkansas

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Mississippi

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Alabama

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Georgia

Fill in the blanks with the names of the candidates in the Election of 1860.

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1. I was a Democrat who had beaten Lincoln for the Illinois Senate Seat prior to losing to him in the Presidential Election of 1860.

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2. I won the Presidential election of 1860 and then watched the union break apart as the south left the union.

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3. I tried to fight for my freedom in a court of law, but they said I couldn’t sue anyone because I was property and not a person.

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1. At the start of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln

stated that the major reason for fighting the war was to

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(1) break the South’s economic ties to Great Britain

(2) uphold the Constitution by preserving the Union

(3) enforce the terms of the Compromise of 1850

(4) punish the Confederate states for leaving the Union

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2. Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 warning that “a house divided against itself cannot stand”

referred to sectional differences over the

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(1) treatment of Native American Indians

(2) issue of slavery

(3) funding for internal improvements

(4) treaties with European nations