UNIT 5: 1844-1877
1. How did the institution of slavery and its attendant ideological debates and territorial expansion in the 1840s and 1850s intensified sectionalism?
•Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
•Dred Scott v. Stanford
• Election of 1860
• South Carolina secession
2. What were the most significant advantages and disadvantages of the North and South at the start of the Civil War?
3. Did Lincoln overstepped his constitutional boundaries by suspending the writ of habeas corpus? Use your understanding of the president’s constitutional powers as well as other historical events surrounding to answer.
4. Did the Emancipation Proclamation actually free the slaves?
5. In what ways did the Gettysburg Address bring back the “spirit of the revolution”?
6. What were the fundamental differences between the president’s plan for reconstruction and Congress’?
7. In what ways were rights granted to African Americans during reconstruction and how were they progressively stripped away?
8. Was President Johnson guilty of committing a “high crime or misdemeanor” and therefore deserve to be impeached? *Must give specific examples of what the Radical Republicans believed were impeachable offenses.