Leading to the Civil War and Lincoln - Page 5

Questions
  • How did popular sovereignty play a role in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
  • 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?
  • By the 1820s, what profession were women beginning to dominate?
  • 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?
  • What was impressment and how did it contribute to the start of the war of 1812?
  • Why did the North and the South have different attitudes toward higher tariffs?
  • How did the Election of 1860 reflect the nation at that time?
  • What was the different roles the North and the South had in the cotton industry and thus slavery?
  • Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as President?
  • How would the early Republican Party have felt about the Dred Scott decision?
  • What reform movement led women to consider their own lack of rights?
  • What issue did the Republican Party rally around in 1854?