Question

The addition of new _________________ was also a source of tension during this period. The United States tried very hard to maintain a sense of political equality in Congress by maintaining an ___________ number of free and ____________states in the Union.

Lincoln, slavery, and the Civil War
The _________________Party nominated Abraham Lincoln as its candidate; this party had taken a stance ____________ the ____________ of slavery into the newly acquired territories.
Lincoln disliked slavery and he was considered an anti-Southern abolitionist candidate (they feared he would abolish slavery). Lincoln supported the Transcontinental Railroad.
The people of the South saw Lincoln’s election as the ___________straw in a long list of actions that they felt favored the North. Many slaveholders believed the U.S. government no longer equally represented their political views. This belief was the final straw that led South Carolina to _____________ from the Union.

Answer 1

Based on the issues and tensions that followed the United States in the 19th century, and led to Civil War, the following are the options to fill in the blanks:

• States
• Equal
• Slave states
• Republican Party
• On
• Issue
• Last straw
• Secede

What led to the Civil War?

From the beginning of the U.S. as a nation, the issue of slavery had being a bone of contention between the North where there was no slavery, and the South which still practiced it.

It didn't help that new states were being added which would tip the balance in favor of either the Free or Slave states.

Things came to a head when the Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln to be its presidential candidate. This angered the South as both the Republicans and Lincoln were abolitionists.

When Lincoln was elected, the South decided to secede with South Carolina being the first to do so.

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