Lesson 1: King Cotton and the spread of Slavery
1.) What is one fact about cotton?
2.) What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?
3.) Why would a Northern factory owner want tarifffs on British goods?
4.) Why did John C. Calhoun speak out against tariffs?
Lesson 2: Heading Toward War
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Compromise of 1850
1.) Was Angelina Grimke's statement a fact or an opinion?
2.)What opinion would abolitionists have about the Fugitive Slave Law?
3.)Write one fact and one opinion about the Lincoln-Douglas campaign?
4.)What event between 1859 and 1861 was most responsible for causing the Civil War?
Lesson 3: The Nation Divided by War
1.) What opinion did leaders on both sides share at the beginning of the war?
2.) What was the first battle of the Civil War?
3.) What did Southerners think about their military tradition?
4.) How did opinions about the war change after the Battle of Shiloh?
5.) What is your opinion of total war?
Lesson 4: The Union Moves Toward Victory
1.) What opinion do you think enslaved people had about the Emancipation Proclamation?
2.) How did Grant feel about people he had defeated after a battle?
3.) What was Lincoln's opinion of his speech at Gettysburg?
4.) What reasons did Lincoln give for continuing the war?
5.) Why did civilians help in the war effort?
Lesson 5: The War Ends
1.) What opinion did some Northerners have about Lincoln's handling of the war?
2.) What opinion did many Northern soldiers have about South Carolina?
3.) Why did Lincoln say he would show "malice toward none?"
4.) Who shot President Abraham Lincoln and Where?
Lesson 6: Reconstruction and After
1.) What does Reconstruction mean?
2.) What were the black codes?
3.) What opinion did the southerners have about carpetbaggers?
4.) Was sharecropping a fair practice?
5.) How did the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson hurt African Americans?