American Civil War Homework Help

Why did Lincoln suspend writs of habeus corpus?

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What are some important causes of the Civil War? Describe how each contributed to the Civil War and why you chose it as an important cause.

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What does  "Fugitive Slave Act" represent when we talk of African American history?

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Why is the Kansas-Nebraska Act considered by some to be the single most important step toward the Civil War?

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Why did northerners and southerners care about the balance of slave states and free states?

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How did the American Civil War impact the lives of the Southerners?  

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What were some of the key events that led to the US Civil War?

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What advantages did the North have over the South in the Civil War?

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Was the Civil War inevitable?

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What do you think are the most intersting and striking features of the Confederate Constitution?

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How did the American Civil War end?

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Would you say that it was more difficult to be a military leader at the time of the Civil War than it is today? 

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What were the Union's weaknesses in the Civil War?

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Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton are both known for their Civil War efforts as what?

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Do you think the Civil War provided any kind of mutual aid to African Americans?

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Why did some of the southern states secede from the United States  

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To what extent did the election of Abraham Lincoln as president cause the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War?

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What events shaped the political debates over slavery in antebellum America?  

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What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North in the Civil War?

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Why did the South want to win the Civil War?

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What was the difference between the Missouri Compromise on the one hand, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decison on the other,...

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How did events in the 1850s increase tensions between North and South in the United States?  

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How did African Americans shape the course and consequences of the Civil War from 1861-1870?

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Who was a better general, Grant or Lee?

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What arguments can be raised regarding whether Abraham Lincoln should have been impeached for his actions during the Civil War?

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Why would the Union army need to resupply Fort Sumter?

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What were the major reasons why the South was unable to fend off the North in the Civil War?

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What major events and issues after the Missouri Compromise led to the outbreak of the Civil War?

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What role did the civilian population in the North and the South play in the Civil War effort?

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Why did the North win the Civil War?

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What did "We the People" mean in the new nation for women, Asians, and immigrants?

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How did the absence of Southern members during the Civil War affect the agenda of Northern Republicans?

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Why did each side go to war in the Civil War? 

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What are the important facts about the Battle of Antietam?

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What was the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War?

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To what extent can the Civil War be accounted for as a struggle between two antagonistic economic systems?

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What issues still remain from the Civil War period?

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Choose one turning point in the Civil War and explain why it was a seminal event.

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Was Southern secession a legal right?I've been assigned to a certain side in our upcoming formal AP US History debate. One side is arguing on...

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How did Charles Sumner's views on Bleeding Kansas create conflict?

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Which of the following is true of the American Civil War?  It...a. was long, destructive and violent. b. included dozens of campaigns and...

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Why did General Sherman march across Georgia during the Civil War?

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Why did the Lincoln administration suspend the writ of habeas corpus on occasion during the Civil War?

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What were the main military challenges Lincoln faced during the Civil War?

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Who among Lincoln's cabinet were his greatest friends/supporters? What did they do to aid/support him?

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What where Lincoln's main foreign policy challenges during the Civil War?

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Considering that Lincoln explicitly stated that he was not an abolitionist, why did South Carolina secede from the Union upon his election in...

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Compare the reactions in the North with those in the South regarding John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry.

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Which of the following was the main goal of Abraham Lincoln and the Union during the Civil War?to end slavery, to punish the south for...

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How can we argue that the Civil War was inevitable?

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