Question 1

The proposed Crittenden Compromise, if adopted, would have

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Question 2

In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln won a majority in the Electoral College, securing his presidency, but he won less than a majority of the popular vote, receiving about 40% due to the fragmented nature of the election with multiple candidates.

Question 3

Assess the validity of the following statement: "Kansas provided a horrible example of the working of popular sovereignty."

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Question 4

Always in 1787, 1820, 1833, and 1850, the North and South had been able to compromise over their sectional political, economic, and social differences. Why not in 1861?

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Question 5

Write your definition of national self-determination. Then use this definition to argue that southern secession in 1860-1861 was or was not an act of a people conscious of their own separate nationalism and determined to achieve it for themselves.

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Question 6

Rank the following in order of their importance to the commencement of the Civil War in April 1861: Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision, John Brown's raid, and Lincoln's election. Justify your ranking.

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Question 7

Before his presidential nomination by the Republican party in 1860, Abraham Lincoln had been

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Question 8

What were the issues central to the Freeport Question and the Freeport Doctrine? How did the Freeport Question and Freeport Doctrine impact the Illinois Senatorial election of 1858?

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Question 9

The 1860 Republican party platform favored

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The 1860 Republican party platform supported protective tariffs, the construction of a transcontinental railroad, free homesteads, and the non-extension of slavery, but not the immediate abolition of slavery.

Question 10

Consider the arguments presented by the nationalist school, the progressive historians, and ethnocultural school on the cause of the civil war. Create your own argument to explain the repressibility or irrepressibility of the Civil War.

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Question 11

The authors argue that despite Lincoln's election in 1860, the South "was not badly off." What do they mean? Why, in spite of this, did southern states secede?

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Question 12

In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that

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The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was not a citizen and could not sue in federal court. It also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and stated that Congress had no power to ban slavery in federal territories.

Question 13

Assess the validity of the following statement: "It was probably fortunate for the Union that secession and civil war did not come in 1856, following a Republican victory."

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Question 14

Compare and contrast the criticism in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South. Which had the more dramatic effect on public opinion? Why?

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Question 15

What was responsible for the violence in "Bleeding Kansas"? Why might the violence be viewed as a "prelude to Civil War"?

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Question 16

In "Varying Viewpoints," the authors argue that both northerners and southerners saw their way of life threatened by the time of the onset of the Civil War in April 1861. How and why could both northerners and southerners feel this way? Do you feel that both northerners and southerners were each justified in fearing that their different ways of life were each being threatened by crucial political, economic, and social developments in America from 1848 to 1861? How may northern and southern paranoid fears about the loss of their distinctive ways of life played a role in providing the political momentum for the drift toward disunion and ultimately the onset of the Civil War?

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Question 17

To what extent did each of these individuals contribute to the commencement of the Civil War in April 1861: John Brown, Stephen Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln?

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Question 18

To what extent was the Crittenden Compromise a realistic way to avoid Civil War? What, if any, modifications might have been made to the Crittenden Compromise of December 1860 to make it palatable to President Lincoln and his fellow Republicans, on the one hand, and to the South, on the other? How would your proposed modifications to the Crittenden Compromise influenced the views of the Border States toward possible secession?

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Question 19

What were the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court Dred Scott decision for
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the status of free blacks in the United States?
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the concept of popular sovereignty?
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the future of slavery in America?
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the respect for the Supreme Court as a coequal Constitutional institution by Republicans and other antislavery Americans?
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Quiz 18: Drifting Toward Disunion