Choose one of the following questions to discuss:
1. What was the relationship between the collapse of the Second Party System of Whigs and Democrats and the Republican victory in the election of 1860?
2. In the first years of the war, what were the political and military strategies of each side? Which was the more successful? Why?
3. How did the emancipation edict affect the politics and military affairs of the North?
4. Why did the North win the Civil War?