Leading to the Civil War and Lincoln - Page 4
Questions
- How did northern voters respond to the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
- Why do you think the Lincoln-Douglas debates received national attention?
- 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 show was Lincoln attending the night he was assassinated?
- Did the Union victory divide the Confederacy along the Mississippi River in the bombardment of Fort Sumter?
- What were the cash crops of the South?
- According to the Missouri Compromise, how were Maine and Missouri to be admitted to the Union?
- Who was the Democratic Party presidential candidate in the 1864 election?
- What did Abraham Lincoln declare in his inaugural address?
- How did the split of the Democratic Party affect the outcome of the 1860 election and the Southern states' decision to secede?
- What job did Lincoln have before getting involved in politics?
- 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?
- 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?
- How was President Andrew Johnson plan for the South different from Lincoln's?