APU HIST101 WEEK 6 AND WEEK 7 FORUM

Choose one of the following questions to discuss:

1. What issues were resolved by the Compromise of 1850? Who benefited more from its terms, the North or the South? Why?
2. What was Lincoln's position on slavery in the 1850s? Did it differ from that of Stephen Douglas?

3. In the first years of the war, what were the political and military strategies of each side? Which was the more successful? Why?

4. How did the emancipation edict affect the politics and military affairs of the North?

5. Why did the North win the Civil War?

WEEK 7

Choose one of the following questions to answer:

1. Why did ex-slaves, struggling for freedom after emancipation resist working for wages?

2. To what extent was President Johnson responsible for the radicalization of the Republican Party in 1866?

3. Why did the ex-slaves’ struggle for land result in the sharecropping system?

4. Do you believe that the failure of Reconstruction was primarily a failure of leadership? Or, do you think that the outcome might have been different had Lincoln lived, or had chosen a different vice president?