Leading to the Civil War and Lincoln

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• Lincoln helped to permanently end slavery in America by pushing Congress to pass what Amendment?
• How was life in the South before the Civil War?
• What was the South's economy based on before and during the Civil War?
• During the 40 years before the Civil War the northern and southern states were evolving as two distinct societies. How did the regions differ and how do you explain those differences?
• What kind of work was available to American woman before the civil war?
• How did the economies of the North and South differ before the Civil War?
• Who wielded the greatest political power in its region in the period before the Civil War?
• Thaddeus Stevens was a Radical Republican. What did Radical Republicans stand for?
• How did the split of the Democratic Party affect the outcome of the 1860 election and the Southern states' decision to secede?
• What were the circumstances in Fort Sumter that allowed it to be the birth place of the Civil War?
• What are considered the Civil War Amendments?
• How did the Tariff of 1816 highlight the nation's growing sectionalism?
• Who was Abraham Lincoln and what part did he play in the Civil War?
• In what ways did the economy of the North change from 1800 to 1850?
• What sparked the beginning of the Civil War?
• When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, what was the result for the southern states?
• How did farming in the Northeast differ from that in the South?
• What did the Whig Party believe in?
• How did popular sovereignty play a role in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
• Who was the Democratic Party presidential candidate in the 1864 election?
• When did the ideas of the democratic party change?
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• When was President Lincoln assassinated?
• What play did Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln plan to see at Ford's Theater on the night Mr. Lincoln was assassinated?
• Where was Abraham Lincoln shot?
• Shorty after Abraham Lincoln's election, which southern state DID NOT leave the United States through an act of secession?
• How did southern states react to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860?
• How would one define sectionalism?
• How did slave codes affected enslaved people?
• What was President Lincoln's first response to the situation at Fort Sumter?
• Who rejected the final compromise effort to stop the secession movement?
• What contributed to the growth of the Know-Nothing movement in the mid-1850s?
• Who created the conflict that characterized the Kansas Territory as "Bleeding Kansas"?
• What argument did President Abraham Lincoln use against the secession of the Southern state?
• How did the invention of the cotton gin change the economy of the South and the North?
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• By the 1820s, what profession were women beginning to dominate?
• What were the cash crops of the South?
• What did the Emancipation Proclamation encourage escaped slaves to do?
• What States' admission into the Union caused a controversy?
• What was the effect of Abraham Lincoln winning the election of 1860?
• What was the main provision of the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 that led Lincoln to "pocket veto"?
• Who was the Free-Soil Party's candidate for President?
• What was the Republican platform in 1860?
• Why did the Democrats fail to win the 1860 election?
• What is one example of how Lincoln overextended the power of the presidency?
• What issue caused the Nullification Crisis of 1833?
• Why do you think the Lincoln-Douglas debates received national attention?
• What was the long term effect of the "Bleeding Kansas" problem?
• What did Abraham Lincoln declare in his inaugural address?
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• What was impressment and how did it contribute to the start of the war of 1812?
• What job did Lincoln have before getting involved in politics?
• What job did Lincoln have before getting involved in politics?
• What was the background of Lincoln's wife?
• Why did the North and the South have different attitudes toward higher tariffs?
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• How did pro-slavery advocates justify slavery?
• How did northerners feel about tariffs at the start of Andrew Jackson's presidency?
• Why did Southern state governments create poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses?
• What plan for the South did President Lincoln start working on before the Civil War had ended?
• What happened in the presidential election of 1832?
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• What did the Three-Fifths Compromise do?
• What was the goal of Macon's Bill No. 2?
• How was the 20th Maine Regiment so instrumental in winning the Battle of Gettysburg?
• Prior to Abraham Lincoln, how many consecutive Presidents served just one term?
• What show was Lincoln attending the night he was assassinated?
• How did the Election of 1860 reflect the nation at that time?
• How did the conflict over states' rights contribute to the outbreak of the Civil War?
• How was President Andrew Johnson plan for the South different from Lincoln's?
• What was the immediate effect of the Presidential election of 1860? Why did this occur?
• According to the Confederacy, how had the national government violated the contract among the states?
• What term means to leave the union?
• What does Lincoln mean when he says soldiers gave "the last full measure of devotion"?
• How did the Underground Railroad worked?
• What did the senators and representatives who signed the Southern Manifesto believed?
• What was one effect of Shays' Rebellion?
• What was John Brown's role in the violence that led to "Bleeding Kansas"?
• What was Stephen A. Douglas's view on slavery?
• Why did Frederick Douglass spend three days washing in the creek before he left for Baltimore?
• What visions did Lincoln articulate in his speech?
• Which state was the last to abolish slavery in the north?
• From about 1830 until the 1850s, what two parties dominated the American politics?
• Where in Virginia was John Brown captured while attacking a federal fort?
• Why was the Morrill Tariff passed?
• Why did Lincoln feel it was necessary for the country to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment?
• What effects did the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have on people in both the North and South?
• How did John Brown's raid impact the national issue of slavery?
• How would both the North and the South have expected to benefit from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
• According to the Missouri Compromise, how were Maine and Missouri to be admitted to the Union?
• How did Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey lead slave revolts in the 1800's and what effect did their efforts have on slavery in the South?
• What were the stipulations of the Missouri Compromise?
• What was the different roles the North and the South had in the cotton industry and thus slavery?
• How did John Brown effect the abolitionist cause?
• How did northern voters respond to the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
• Why did the border states- Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri- where slavery was legal, not join other southern states in seceding in the months before Abraham Lincoln took office?