1. Unit 5 Chapters 16,18,19,20,21,22,23 Topics and Essay Questions

2. Topics Long Term and Immediate Causes of Civil War
Slavery (the institution of slavery, arguments for and against, and as a cause of the Civil War)
Abolitionist Movement / Growth of Abolitionism
Lincoln: racist? Role in causing Civil War? Role in winning the Civil War?
North’s and South’s advantages and disadvantages during the Civil War
Reconstruction: components, success or failure?

3. Essay Questions
What events, issues, people (Douglas, Stowe, Browne, Lincoln, Garrison)… caused the Civil War?
What events and issues in the 1850s contributed to causing the Civil War?
Explain why the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all failed to successfully solve the issue of Slavery, and to prevent Civil War?
Why did the South support Slavery and what arguments did it use in defense of the institution? What arguments were used by the Northern abolitionists in opposition to Slavery? (Could be separate essays)

4. Essay Questions To what extent can Lincoln be regarded as a Racist?
What were the advantages and disadvantages of North and South in the Civil War?
What leadership qualities did Lincoln possess that enabled the North to win the Civil War?
What were Presidential and Republican / Radical Reconstruction and to what extent did Republican (Radical) Reconstruction succeed or fail?
What brought about the end of Radical Reconstruction?

5. What were the key components of Republican (Congressional / Radical) Reconstruction and explain to what extent it succeeded or failed?
AP Test, 2009
Analyze the social, political, and economic forces of the 1840s and early 1850s that led to the emergence of the Republican Party.

6. For what reasons did the South support Slavery and what arguments did it use in defense of the institution? What arguments were used by the North in condemnation of slavery?