Chapter 14: The Civil War

Below please find the questions on the Civil War chapter written by your classmate, Zane McBean. Please answer at least one of these questions in a response that is a minimum of one paragraph in length.

Recruitment poster for the U.S.C.T. from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University

1) What were some of the issues that the Confederacy had in obtaining enough troops for its war effort?

2) Who benefited the most economically and politically by the end of the Civil War, and how?

3) Who, in your opinion, was the most influential individual on the course of events during the war, and what successes or failures by this individual turned the tide of it?

Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis

Free State Battery in Kansas, 1856

Here are the Chapter 13 questions written by your classmate, Theda Clay. Please answer at least one of these in a response of roughly two paragraphs in length:

1) What were the justifications presented for having slavery or not having slavery in the western territories?

2) Why did a rebellion in Texas occur between the Mexican government and the American settlers in 1835?  After Texas obtained its independence, why was there opposition to it joining the United States? Do you think that President Polk’s push for war was legitimate?

3) Why was the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed? Why was their so much controversy over the creation of a territorial government following the passage of the act? Why was the territory eventually called “Bleeding Kansas”?

4) What was the decision in the Dred Scott case, and what effect did this judgment have on African Americans in the United States?