1. 55.What is an arsenal? 56.What happened at the federal arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, VA? 57.What was John Brown’s goal? 58.Who was the commander of US forces at the Harper’s Ferry confrontation? 59.What happened to John Brown? 60.How did the North react differently than the South to this incident with John Brown?

2. 61.What happened to the Democratic Party during the spring of 1860? 62.What party was created in 1860 made up of Southern moderates and people from the border states? 63. Heading into the Republican Convention of 1860, who was the frontrunner for the presidential nomination? 64.Who got the Republican nomination? 65.Who won the 1860 presidential election?

3. 66.What outrage led the secessionists to want to secede from the Union? 67. What did the secessionists use as their argument to say they were allowed to secede? 68.The president is not officially elected until the Electoral College votes. How many days after the Electoral College voted in 1860 did it take for South Carolina to secede? 69.By February, 1861, how many states had seceded?

4. 70.What country did the seceded states create? 71.Who did the seceded states elect as president? 72.What was President Buchanan’s position regarding the seceded states? 73. In Lincoln’s inaugural address, what did he tell Southerners? 74. What fort was located on an island in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina?

5. 75.What was the problem Lincoln had with the fort in South Carolina as soon as he became president? 76.What did Lincoln do about it? 77.What did Jefferson Davis order? 78.When did the South begin the Civil War by firing on a federal fort? (specific date) 79.What group of 4 states seceded after Lincoln asked for volunteers to fight the South?

6. The Last Question!! 80. What was the main issue that caused the Civil War?