Question

How did conflict between the United States and Mexico increase the need for compromise between the North and the South?

What was the major issue with the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

What was the main purpose for the Compromise of 1850 (Written Question)?

What gave slaves little rights or opportunities like freedom of assembly and the right to an education?

What were some reasons that were given in favor of continuing slavery?


What enraged Northerners due to the secret way the South tried to expand slavery?

Where did Lincoln first get an opportunity to show his skills debating and gain the support of abolitionists?

What were some causes of the Civil War (Written Question)?

What battle forced General Lee to retreat which shifted momentum to the North?

What was the importance with the battle at Fort Wagner?

How did General Lee and General Grant differ on their war strategies (Written Question)?

What was the final event that led to the South seceding from the Union?

What was Lincoln’s response to the South seceding from the Union?

What was General Lee’s response when Union troops surrounded him and his men in Appomattox?

Why did Lincoln address the nation right after the Civil War had ended?

What was the purpose of the Reconstruction Amendments?

What were some examples of Black Codes?

Why were the Enforcement Acts written (Written Question)?

What was President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction?

What happened to President Johnson when he dismissed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton?

What were the main differences between President Lincoln and President Johnson’s Reconstruction plans (Written Question)?

Why did Radical Republicans abandon Reconstruction?

Prior to the 15th Amendment, what could Black men do in the South before Black men in the North?

What was the main contributor to Custer’s loss at The Battle of Little Big Horn?

What affected U.S. and Indian relations most prior to their battles?

Answer 1

what was the main purpose for the Compromise of 1850 (Written Question)?

Compromise of 1850, in U.S. history, a series of measures proposed by the “great compromiser,” Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky, and passed by the U.S. Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union.

What was the major issue with the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

Missouri Compromise, (1820), in U.S. history, measure worked out between the North and the South and passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed for admission of Missouri as the 24th state (1821). It marked the beginning of the prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery that led to the American Civil War.