Six Questions Flashcards
What issues attracted the most intense debate during the drafting and ratification of the constitution?
The Virginia Plan, slavery, and federalism
Why did slavery expand and become more deeply entrenched in southern society in the early 19th century?
The cotton gin, price of slaves, and farmers
How did new technologies, immigration, and the panic of 1837 change the economic opportunities and organizing strategies for northern workers?
New machinery, new jobs, working women
Why did many in the south believe that the election of Lincoln was the cause for succession?
State rights would be violated, Lincoln against slavery, Missouri compromise
What three events were most important to make the civil war become a war to end slavery?
The emancipation proclamation, the confederate states formed, fort sumtors conquer
Why did northern interest in reconstruction wane in the 1870s?
Proclamation of Amnesty, Wade-Davis bill, the South should fix their problem
