Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 18, Lesson 3: A House Divided (pp. 462-466)
I. The Search for a Solution
B. Abraham Lincoln spoke out against slavery.
C. John Brown led a slave revolt and was hanged for treason.
II. The Election of 1860
B. Abraham Lincoln won the election.
B. Jefferson Davis became the president of the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy.
C. The war between the North and the South began at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. The Dred Scott Decision: The Supreme Court said Congress did not have the right to forbid slavery in U.S. territories.
A. Three candidates ran for President: from the southern Democrats: John Breckinridge; from the northern Democrats: Stephen Douglas; from the Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln.
III. The Reaction of the South
A. Seven southern states seceded from the Union before Lincoln's election.
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