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Section 4 Notetaking Study Guide
Question to Think About As you read Section 4 in your textbook and take
notes, keep this question in mind: Why did the election of Abraham Lincoln
spark the secession of southern states?
Use
this chart to record key information from the section. Some information
has been filled in to get you started.
Chain of Events Leading to Civil War
• There were four candidates in the election because proslavery
and antislavery factions of the Democratic Party chose different candidates; some Southerners formed the Constitutional
Union Party.
Douglas
• Northern Democratic candidate: Stephen
_____________________
John
Breckinridge
• Southern Democratic candidate: _____________________
John Bell
• Constitutional Union candidate: ______________________
Abraham
Lincoln
• Republican candidate: ______________________________
• Although he did not receive a majority of the popular vote,
electoral
Lincoln received enough _________________________
to win
the election.
fragmented (divided)the nation was.
• The election showed how __________________
Secession
• After South Carolina learned that Lincoln had won the election,
seceding from the Union
it responded by _____________________________________
.
• Southern leaders who opposed secession:
Tenn. senator Andrew Johnson
1. ________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________
Tex. Gov. Sam Houston
South Carolina
• First state to secede from the Union: ___________________
Confederate States of Am.
• Name of the new southern nation: ______________________
Jefferson Davis
• President of the southern nation: _______________________
• Lincoln’s message to seceding states: ___________________
he assured the suceded
states
that he meant them no harm and that he would
__________________________________________________
not
interfere with slavery where it existed.
__________________________________________________
• Response of seceding states to Lincoln’s message:
1. rejection
________________________________________________
seized federl property in their borders
2. they
________________________________________________
Fort Sumter
send a
• Lincoln’s plan to deal with the siege of Fort Sumter: _______
supply
ship
with
no
guns
so
southerns
wouldn't
think
__________________________________________________
he
was attacking them
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
They fired on the
• South Carolina’s response to Lincoln’s plan: ______________
fort,
capturing it and starting the Civil War
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
Refer to this page to answer the Chapter 14 Focus Question on page 228.
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Unit 5
Chapter 14
Section 4
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