How did both the Southern states that seceded and Abraham Lincoln ...

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Question 1

In his editorial titled The Prayer of Twenty Millions, what does Horace Greeley believe that Abraham Lincoln should do?
 
  A) end the Civil War
  B) emancipate the slaves
  C) accept Southern secession
  D) invade the Southern states

Question 2

What contributed to the victory of the Union over the Confederacy in the Civil War?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

In what respects was the conflict between the North and South from 1861 to 1865 a civil war? In what respects was it a rebellion? In what respects was it a war of independence?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

How did both the Southern states that seceded and Abraham Lincoln use the Constitution to make their respective arguments for and against secession?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer 1

Answer: B

Answer 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. A Union victory at the Battle of Vicksburg gave the North control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederate states.
b. A Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg stopped the northern advance of the Confederate forces and forced them to retreat.
c. The Union had more people and resources and could thus afford more losses than the Confederacy.
d. A series of Union victories under the command of William T. Sherman, Phil Sheridan, and David Farragut wore down Confederate forces.

Answer 3

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. It was a civil war because it pitted one section of the country against another.
b. It was a civil war because the government that was in power before the outbreak of the war was the same government in power after the war ended.
c. It was a rebellion because the Union did not recognize the sovereignty of the Confederates States of America.
d. It was a rebellion because the Confederacy lost and accepted the authority of the federal government when the war ended.
e. It was a war of independence only in the sense that the Confederate States of America fought the war in hopes of becoming a sovereign country.
f. The Confederacy sought the aid of Britain and France in what it considered to be a war of independence.

Answer 4

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. The Southern states argued that the Constitution did not expressly prohibit secession.
b. They also cited the Tenth Amendment to contend that secession was a right reserved to the state.
c. Lincoln argued that if the Founders had intended states to have the right to secede, then they would have included an explicit provision in the Constitution to that effect.
d. Lincoln emphasized that the Preamble to the Constitution begins with the words We the People and not We the States.
e. Lincoln also emphasized that the goal of the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union.