Question 1: What was life like for slaves in the United States prior to the Civil War?

• Resource 1: Personal Accounts of Slavery: Slave Auction

• Resource 2: Personal Accounts of Slavery: Slave Auction

• Resource 3: Personal Accounts of Slavery: Breakup of Families

• Resource 4: Personal Accounts of Slavery: Slave Trade

• Resource 5: Personal Accounts of Slavery: Living Conditions

• Resource 6: Personal Accounts of Slavery: Living Conditions

• Resource 7: Personal Accounts of Slavery: Slave Labor

• Resource 8: Personal Accounts of Slavery: Punishment

• Resource 9: Personal Accounts of Slavery: Punishment

• Resource 10: Personal Accounts of Slavery: Education

• Resource 11: Personal Accounts of Slavery: Runaway Slaves

Question 2: How did compromises postpone conflict between North and South?

• Resource 1: Compromise Chart

• Resource 2:Compromise Chart (Suggested Answers)

• Resource 3:Stephen Douglas Speech

Question 3: How did ideas and events contribute to the conflict between North and South?

• Resource 1:A Pro-Slavery Argument (1850)

• Resource 2:Frederick Douglass Speech on July 4, 1852

• Resource 3:Bleeding Kansas (1856)

• Resource 4:Dred Scott Decision (1857)

• Resource 5:Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" Speech (1858)

• Resource 6:William Seward's Speech (1858)

• Resource 7:John Brown's Raid (1859)

• Resource 8:Republican Party Platform (1860)

• Resource 9:Secession (1860)

• Resource 9a: Civil War Map

Question 4:In what ways were people affected by the Civil War?

• Resource 1:Photograph Analysis Guide

• Resource 2:Civil War: The First Modern War

Question 5: What did Abraham Lincoln do to preserve the Union?

• Resource 1: First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861)

• Resource 2: Suspension of Habeas Corpus (April 27, 1861)

• Resource 3: Letter to Horace Greely (August 22, 1862)

• Resource 4: Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)

• Resource 5: The Union Draft (March 1863)

• Resource 6: Gettysburg Address (November 1863)

• Resource 7: Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865)

• Resource 8: Lincoln Political Cartoon: Assessment Criteria

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