1. The Civil War – Who fought? Who won? What changed? What stayed the same? Why does it matter?

2. What did white, southern plantation owners lose?

3. Why were southern planters in such bad financial shape after the Civil War?

4. What did the freedmen win?

5. What did the freedmen lose?

6. Why could “freedom” be both a blessing and a curse for African Americans right after the Civil War?

7. What did non-planter white southerners lose?

8. What did northerners win?

9. How did the North’s victory in the Civil War change the United States?

10. How did the North’s victory in the Civil War change the United States?
-- politically?

11. Why does the North gain political power?

12. How did the North’s victory in the Civil War change the United States
How did the North’s victory in the Civil War change the United States? -- politically? -- economically?

13. Why did many (factory owners and workers) in the North support a high tariff on imports? Why had southerners opposed raising tariffs before the Civil War?

14. How did the North’s victory in the Civil War change the United States?
-- politically
-- economically
-- psychologically

15. What problems must the federal government address?