For this Board, you can answer either Part A or Part B.

A) From the early 1800's until the start of the Civil War in 1861, the North and South developed in many different ways. At times, it seemed as if the two sections pursued different development paths in a deliberate effort to not do what the other section had done. Discuss, using two examples, the statement that the North and the South developed differently and often took actions in direct opposition to what the other section did. If you prefer, pick any topic from my Unit 13 lecture or Chapter 13 of Brinkley up through The Compromise of 1850 (top of page 355) and post a comment.

B) As always, we meet people and encounter issues and topics in the chapter. For example, we meet Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, President James K. Polk, thousand of Americans who headed west (my great grandmother was born in a covered wagon heading to California but they turned back and stayed in Tennessee), Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster. We encounter The Battle of The Alamo, The Mexican War, The California Gold Rush, and the issue of whether or not to allow slavery in the territories. Pick any one topic or person and write a comment for the Board.

2) For this Board, you can answer either Part A or Part B.

A) From 1776 onwards, the North and the South were able to work out a number of compromises that avoided the direct question of whether or not to abolish slavery in this country. However, the closer the country came to the start of the Civil War in 1861, the more difficult it became for the two sections to reach a compromise. Use two examples to show how the country could compromise concerning the issue of slavery up through the 1850's and/or how the country was unable to compromise after 1854.

B) We meet many of the same people and issues we encountered in DB 13. You can pick some person or issue from DB 13 that you haven't already written about or you can pick someone else from Chapter 13 in the textbook or the Unit 14 lecture. For example, there is John Brown and his supporters, Jefferson Davis, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, General Winfield Scott, and President James Buchanan and President-Elect Abraham Lincoln. There are any number of issues to choose including the debate over building a transcontinental railroad.

3) In this discussion, you can respond to either "A," "B," or "C"

A) Using at least three different specific examples, discuss the statement that the Civil War was a modern, 20th/21st century style war. (A list of items, in and of itself, is not acceptable).

B) Pick any battle of the Civil War and discuss it from both the North and the South's point of view.

C) As always, we meet people and encounter issues in this Unit and Chapter 14 of the textbook. We meet, for example, General P. G. T. Beauregard, Major Robert Anderson, Abner Doubleday, U.S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Braxton Bragg, George McClellan, and many more Union and Southern officers. We meet three million Americans who joined either the Northern Armies or the Southern Armies. We meet Dorothea Dix (again) and Elizabeth Blackwell as well as Mary Chestnut. We also meet the Wartime President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. We encounter all kinds of issues including the debate over the causes of the Civil War (pages 376-377 of our textbook) as well as the topic of "Baseball and the Civil War" (pages 388-389). Pick any person or topic and write a comment about it for the Board.

4) For this discussion, you can respond to either A, B, C, or D:

A) Discuss Congressional Reconstruction laws being sure to comment on the importance of the 14th Amendment and how it effected the existing relationship between individuals, states, and the federal government.

B) How do you see the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson? How Radical were the Radical Republicans? Were they a "runaway train" and could only be stopped by President Andrew Johnson? Or was Johnson an obstructionist doing what he could to prevent Congress from providing assistance to freed slaves?

C) Discuss the disputed election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877. If you wish to draw an analogy to the disputed November, 2000 Presidential election, please feel free to do so.

D) As always, we meet people and encounter issues. For example, we meet General Oliver B. Howard, Andrew Johnson, Alexander H. Stephens, Thaddeus Stevens, Boss Tweed, President U.S. Grant, Samuel Tilden, and Rutherford B. Hayes. We also meet a war weary President Abraham Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth. We encounter issues like the Freedman's Bureau, the Black Codes, and the use of Federal troops to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves. There are many more people and issues too numerous to mention. Pick any one person or issue, listed or not, and write a comment for our board.

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