Questions (10 Marks)

Question 1

Refresher questions

Answer 1

1 What were the main differences between North and South in the mid-nineteenth century?
2 Why were southerners so committed to slavery?
3 Why was western expansion a threat to the Union?
4 How successful was the 1850 Compromise?
5 What were the effects of the Kansas–Nebraska Act?
6 Why did the Republicans emerge as the Democrats’ main rivals?
7 Why were sectional tensions so high in 1860?
8 Why did Lincoln win the 1860 presidential election?
9 Why did the lower South states secede in 1860–61?
10 Why did four upper South states secede in mid-1861?