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Additional Class Topics
For Further Interest: Additional Class Topics
Chapter 19:
Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854 - 1861
- Use Stowes Uncle
Toms Cabin, and the southern reaction to it, to demonstrate
the growing division of outlook between the sections. Compare and contrast
the criticisms and their effects of Stowe's Uncle Tom's
Cabin and Helper's The Impending Crisis of the
South.
- Focus on John Brown as a crucial character
in two of the major events of the decade, bleeding Kansas and Harpers Ferry.
- Trace the rise of Lincoln through the
events of the decade, from the Kansas-Nebraska Act to the Lincoln-Douglas
debates to the 1860 election.
- Consider the southern decision to secede
and the last-minute Crittenden Compromise effort.
- Assess the textbook authors' assertion
that it was fortunate that Republican presidential candidate Fremont did not
win in 1856 because the, "North was more willing to let the South depart in
peace than in 1860."
- Did lame duck President Buchanan or President-elect
Lincoln have any responsibility to act once South Carolina announced its secession
after the election? What options did each have in dealing with the crisis?
What results seemed likely from each option?
- Was civil war inevitable by 1850? Was
there a point in time after 1850 where something different might have prevented
civil war, or would civil war just have been delayed?
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