Southern Secession Answers

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What was Houston predicting in this quote?

A war would maintain the institution of slavery.

A war would end the institution of slavery.

A war would make the North welcome slavery.

Why did the Democratic Party have two presidential candidates in 1860?

There was a split in the party over the issue of allowing settlers into the west.

The vote was tied so they had to have two candidates.

There was a difference of opinion on the issue of popular sovereignty and slavery.

Which of the following were included in the Republican Party’s platform for the 1860 election?

seceding from the United States

stopping slavery’s spread in the United States

introducing slavery to the North

preventing people from settling in the West

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