• Syllabus

8: United States’ Civil War: Causes, course and effects (1840–1877)

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Sub sections and their related questions

Slavery: cotton economy and slavery; conditions of enslavement; adaptation and resistance; abolitionist debate—ideological, legal, religious and economic arguments for and against slavery, and their impact

• 19M.3op2.HL.TZ0.15: Discuss the arguments for and against slavery in the US.
• 19N.3op2.HL.TZ0.15: Examine the arguments that were made for and against slavery in the United States during the period.

Origins of the Civil War: the Nullification Crisis; states’ rights; sectionalism; slavery; political issues; economic differences between the North and South

• 18M.3op2.HL.TZ0.15: To what extent did the Nullification Crisis contribute to the outbreak of the US Civil War?
• 19N.3op2.HL.TZ0.16: “Sectionalism was the main cause of the Civil War.” Discuss.
• 21M.3op2.HL.TZ0.15: “Economic differences between the North and South were the most important factor in causing the...
• 21N.3op2.HL.TZ0.15: “Economic differences between the North and the South were more significant than slavery to the...

Reasons for, and effects of, westward expansion and the sectional debates; the crises of the 1850s; compromise of 1850; political developments, including the Lincoln–Douglas debates and the presidential election of 1860

• 17M.3op2.HL.TZ0.15:

  “The presidential election of 1860 demonstrated that neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party could unify the country.” Discuss.

• 17N.3op2.HL.TZ0.15: To what extent did the crises of the 1850s contribute to the outbreak of the Civil War?
• 19M.3op2.HL.TZ0.16: To what extent did the North and South regard the compromise of 1850 as harmful to their interests?
• 22M.3op2.HL.TZ0.15:

  To what extent was westward expansion the main cause of the Civil War?

Union versus Confederate: strengths and weaknesses; economic resources; role and significance of leaders during the Civil War; role of Lincoln; significant military battles/campaigns

• 18N.3op2.HL.TZ0.15: Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Union and the Confederacy at the outbreak of the...
• 20N.3op2.HL.TZ0.15: “Political leaders were more significant than military leaders during the Civil War.” Discuss.

Factors affecting the outcome of the Civil War; the role of foreign relations; the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and participation of African Americans in the Civil War

• 20N.3op2.HL.TZ0.16: Examine the importance of African Americans to the Union victory in the Civil War.
• 21M.3op2.HL.TZ0.16:

  Evaluate the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) on the outcome of the Civil War.

Reconstruction: presidential and congressional plans; methods of southern resistance; economic, social and political successes and failures

• 17M.3op2.HL.TZ0.16: Evaluate the presidential and congressional plans for post-Civil War reconstruction.
• 17N.3op2.HL.TZ0.16: To what extent did Reconstruction improve the lives of African Americans in the southern US?
• 18M.3op2.HL.TZ0.16: Evaluate the effectiveness of methods of Southern resistance to Reconstruction.
• 18N.3op2.HL.TZ0.16: “Congressional plans for Reconstruction aimed to punish, rather than rebuild and reform the...
• 21N.3op2.HL.TZ0.16: Compare and contrast presidential and congressional plans for Reconstruction.
• 22M.3op2.HL.TZ0.16:

  “Reconstruction was an economic failure, but a political success by 1877.” Discuss.

African Americans in the New South: legal issues; the black codes; Jim Crow laws

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