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Small Group Driving Question Analysis - using your notes from  ch 13 reading develop a complete response to the driving question (1- 16)

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Small Group Driving Question Analysis - using your notes from  ch 13 reading develop a complete response to the driving question (1- 16). Be specific and use examples from your reading (pg number and paragraph).  BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS.

 

1)Read the Abraham Lincoln quote and first paragraph of the chapter on page 247.

List and explain the four main reasons historians agree on that propelled the nation into civil war.

 

2 Which cause do you view as the most significant?

 

 

3  The Mexican-American War ended in 1848. What was the impact of the Mexican Cession on

American politics?

 

 

4   How was the impact of the Mexican Cession in 1848 similar to the impact of the Louisiana

Purchase in 1803? Make sure your answer includes specific evidence connecting the broad

context of both events.

 

 

 

 

 

5  What was the most contentious aspect of this compromise? Explain and defend your answer.

 

 

6   Explain how abolitionists impacted state institutions and American culture.

 

 

 

 

7 Explain how the arts impacted movements for social and political change in the Antebellum Era.

 

 

 

8 Compare and contrast the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 to the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

Identify a minimum of 2 similarities and 2 differences.

 

 

 

9  Which one was more successful? Explain your reasoning.

 

 

10   If the canning of Sumner occurred in modern times, how might the outcome be different? What is

the difference in Antebellum America and modern America that paints such a different

Picture?

 

 

11 Compare the impact of nativism to the impact of slavery on the American political system from

1848-1860.

 

 

12 Which event was a more significant turning point, The Marshall Court’s 1803 Marbury v. Madison

ruling or the Taney Court’s 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling? Defend your view.

 

 

13 Support or refute the assertion that John Brown was a martyr.

           

 

14  Compare the issues and results of the 1860 presidential election to those of the 1852 election.

 

 

 

 

 

 

15 In what ways were the rationales of secession following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860

similar to the rationales of the South Carolina Exposition and Protest and Ordinance of

Nullification during the Jacksonian Era?

 

 

16  Compare and Contrast the Crittenden Compromise and the Wilmot Proviso. Explain the significance of this comparison.

 

 

17 What Caused the Civil War?

 

 

18 Which viewpoint do you agree with most? Explain your choice.