Assignment- Portfolio Assignment

Part 1

1. What would you guess were the main causes of the Civil War?

2. What arguments of the abolitionists do you find convincing? What about those of the South?

Part 2

1. What did Webster mean when he said there "can be no such thing as a peaceable secession"?

2. What is your personal opinion about the argument that individual states have the right to secede from the Union?

Part 3

1. If you were in Lincoln's position, what would you do and why?

2. What strengths do you think the South had? What strengths do you think the North had? How did these factors influence the outcome of the war?

3. Many believe we are still dealing with residual effects from the Civil War. Identify such issues and state how we continue to grapple with them or how we have resolved them over time.

Part 4

1. What rules would you have for the South before it would be allowed to return to the Union? Would you be strict?