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Questions For Class Discussion

Questions For Class Discussion
Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854 - 1861

  1. How did each of the major crisis events of the 1850s contribute to the advent of the Civil War?

  2. How could a fanatical and violent man like John Brown come to be regarded as a hero by millions of northerners?

  3. Why did Douglass popular sovereignty approach to the slavery question prove to be unworkable in Kansas and elsewhere?

  4. What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott case? Did the Court do too much in its ruling or was it within its traditional Constitutional boundaries? What effect did the decision have in the territories, in the North, and in the South?

  5. Why was sectional compromise impossible in 1860, when such compromises had previously worked in 1820 and 1850? Since Lincoln had guaranteed to protect slavery in the states where it existed, why did the seven southern states secede as soon as he was elected?
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