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?