Discuss the below:
Q1. Identify the major factors contributing to U.S. territorial expansion in the 1840s.
Q2. Explain why the expansion of slavery became the most divisive political issue in the 1840s and 1850s.
Q3. Identify the combination of issues and events that fueled the creation of the Republican Party in the 1850s.
Q4. Explain what enabled Lincoln to emerge as president from the divisive party politics of the 1850s.
Q5. Describe the final steps on the road to secession.
Q1. Explain why the Civil War is considered the first modern war.
Q2. Describe how a war to preserve the Union became a war to end slavery.
Q3. Explain how the Civil War transformed the national economy and created a stronger nation- state.
Q4. Explain how the war effort and leadership problems affected the society and economy of the Confederacy.
Q5. Identify the military and political turning points of the war.
Q6. Identify the most important war time "rehearsals for reconstruction."
Q1. Identify the visions of freedom the former slaves and slaveholders pursued in the postwar South.
Q2. Describe the sources, goals, and competing visions for Reconstruction.
Q3. Describe the social and political effects of Radical Reconstruction in the South.
Q4. Explain the main factors in both the North and South for the overthrow of Reconstruction.