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How did the South react to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the US in 1860?  

How did the election of 1860 cause the Civil War?

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

Why did some Southern states secede immediately after Lincoln’s election in 1860?

What event caused Southern states to secede from the Union, just weeks after it happened?

What were the goals in the beginning of the Civil War for each side?

What was one major disadvantage of the North during the American Civil War?

What did the Union and Confederate soldiers believe they were fighting for in the Civil War?

What were some of the long term effects of the American Civil War?

Why did the Civil War last so long?

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

What geographic advantages did the South have over the North?

What struggles did the North face at the beginning of the Civil War?

What physical destruction resulted from the Civil War?

How did the North and South each finance the Civil War?

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

Compare and contrast the North and the South at the start of the Civil War.

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

To what extent did developments between 1860 and 1877 amount to a revolution?

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

  How did the Civil War bring America together?  Give evidence.    

American change from political disputes (1820–1860). In the early nineteenth century, Americans sought to resolve their political disputes through compromise, yet by 1860 this no longer seemed possible. Analyze the reasons for this change.

What is one way that the Confederate States of America was similar to the United States? What is one way it was different?    

Why did President Lincoln want to prevent Maryland from seceding?

Why was the Civil War considered the second American Revolution?

What are the underlying and immediate causes of the Civil War?

What appealed to northern voters about the Republican Party? How did this lead to Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the 1860 presidential election?

How did southern states react to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860?

What issues from the Civil war were left unresolved at the turn of the twentieth century?

Analyze how western expansion contributed to the growing sectional tensions between the North and South. Confine your answer to the period from 1800–1850.

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

Was the Civil War worth fighting? Why? The Civil War did end slavery, however it did little to improve the lives of African Americans after the war.

How did South Carolina's response to the 1832 tariff foreshadow secessionist sentiments?

Why did Lincoln enforce martial law upon Maryland?

What are some similarities and differences between the American Civil War and World War II?

How did the Union win the Battle of Gettysburg?

Please explain how the debate over the extension of slavery led to the Civil War.

How did the Civil War affect the Native Americans?

Did the North and South initially go to war in 1861 over the issue of slavery or the issue of states' rights?

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

Why did the South lag behind the North in manufacturing during the Civil War?

In "Letter to His Son" by Robert E. Lee, how does Lee describe secession? In your own words, explain Lee's argument against secession.

Which event had a greater impact on federalism: the Civil War or the Great Depression?

Why did the South believe it could win the war despite numerical disadvantages?

Why did the North win the Civil War?

What did the Civil War accomplish?

How did controversy over the Constitution lead to the American Civil War?

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

Why would the Union army need to resupply Fort Sumter?

What exactly were the sectional differences between the North and South which led into the Civil War?