Leading to the Civil War and Lincoln - Page 2

Questions
  • What advantage did the south have over the north?
  • The crittenden plan was ?
  • 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?
  • How did John Brown's raid impact the national issue of slavery?
  • 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?
  • What was one effect of Shays' Rebellion?
  • What did the senators and representatives who signed the Southern Manifesto believed?
  • Which political party dominated politics in the northern U. S. from the election of Abraham Lincoln until the election of FDR in 1932?
  • What effects did the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have on people in both the North and South?
  • How did the Underground Railroad worked?
  • After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what party did antislavery Democrats form?
  • How do the murderers explain the death of Caesar in "Julius Caesar"?
  • How was life in the South before the Civil War?
  • What was the South's economy based on before and during the Civil War?
  • Lincoln helped to permanently end slavery in America by pushing Congress to pass what Amendment?