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