1. Describe the growth
of the Cotton Kingdom and the South's growing dependence on
slave labor.
2. Why did Southern
slaveholders and non-slaveholders want to protect slavery.
3. Discuss the
economics and profitability of slavery.
4. Describe the experience of slave women in the South
5. Describe the
discrimination free blacks faced in both the North and the
South.
6. Describe the
South's defense of slavery.
7. Discuss the
different forms of slave resistance.
8. Describe how slaves
built and held on to their culture.
9. Trace the
development of the nativist sentiment in the US.
10. Describe the rise
and fall of the Know Nothing Party.
11. Explain the
controversy over the political organization of the territory
gained by the US
in the Mexican War.
12. Describe and
evaluate the Compromise of 1850.
13. Describe the
growth of sectionalism in the US.
14. Identify the
elements of southern nationalism.
15. Describe how the
slavery issue affected the political parties.
16. Discuss the
decline of the Whigs and the rise of the Republican Party.
17. Discuss how
slavery polarized the sections and made compromise so
difficult?
18. Discuss the
election of 1860. Who were the candidates? What were the
main issues?
19. Compare and
contrast the strengths and weaknesses of the North and South
at the outset of
the Civil War.
20. Why was the Civil
War known as a “total war.?
21. Describe the
conscription bills that both the North and the South passed
to generate
manpower for the war.
22. Discuss the foreign
diplomacy conducted by the North and the South. What were
the objectives of
each? What problems did each side face? What were the
results?
23. Describe the
problems that Lincoln faced in conducting the war.
24. Discuss the
reasons why Lincoln finally passed the Emancipation
Proclamation in 1863.
25. Discuss the
reasons why the North finally was able to win the war.
26. Compare and
contrast the reconstruction plans of Lincoln, Johnson, and
Congress.
27. Discuss the human
costs of the Civil War. Discuss the impact of the war on the
South and how the
South changed after the war.
28. How did the South
prove they were unrepentant after the war?
29. Describe the
country's perception of Reconstruction. Why did Americans
perceive
Reconstruction this way?
30. Explain why
reconstruction failed by 1877.
