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You will be writing a short paper on the Civil War for your final essay. Below you will see four sets of questions. Your paper will want to answer all four sets of questions. The paper can be rather informal. There's no need for an introduction or conclusion. Just MAKE a paragraph for each set of questions and you'll be good, i.e. four paragraphs (since there's four sets of questions). For each set of questions, you will want to write 200 (or more) words. In total, then your paper should be 800 (or more) words. You will want to cite from the textbook (you may also find our class discussion for week 4 helpful. Please review my comments and feedback in the discussion and feel free to include it as evidence in addition to the textbook). Like the reading responses, you should paraphrase rather than include word-for-word quotations. You'll want to include actual citation. This can be informal, i.e. just include a page number in parentheses at the conclusion of your sentences. My advice is to provide sufficient evidence from the course material to support the claims you are making throughout. You'll note that I'm not asking for an introduction or a concluding paragraph, so there will be no need to implement an overarching thesis statement. You will be making claims specific to each question set, backed up by ample support from the course material. Your paper will be due at the end of the final week of class, Thursday, August 3rd, 2023. You will submit it here. The submission must be a file upload, meaning you'll be writing your paper on either Microsoft Word or Google Docs, etc. prior to turning it in here.

Questions

1. What was happening in the 1850s to make the Civil War occur by 1861? What issue(s) were at stake and how did these drive the North and the South apart? Ultimately, what caused the war?

2. Why did Southern states secede and form the Confederacy? What was the Confederacy fighting for? What was the Union fighting for, at least initially? And why? How did the meaning of the war change for the Union?

3. How did the Union emerge victorious over the Confederacy? What led the Union to victory? What helped the Union turn the tide of the war in their favor? Why was the Confederacy struggling by 1863, i.e. why were they losing? What caused them to lose? What resulted from the Civil War? For the South? For the United States as a whole?

4. What role did Black people/enslaved people play in the Civil War? What were they doing and how were they contributing? What did the Civil War mean to them? Who or what ended slavery in the United States? Why?