Activity 1:

Write an essay to analyze the slavery debate between the North and the South, referring to
their contrasting political, economic, and moral arguments.

Activity 2: Make a presentation about:

The Role of the Abolitionist Movement in the American Civil War.

Activity 3: Listen to the following teaching video and answer the following questions
(
).

1. What was the other name given to the American Civil War?
2. What was the U.S. Civil War?
3. What was the central cause of the war, according to the video?
4. What was the most profitable crop which depended on enslaved people in the south?
5. What was the second cause which led to the war?
6. What were the economic differences between the North and the South?
7. What were the compromises made previously to balance free and slave states?
8. When and where did violent confrontations between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers
take place, leading to bloody skirmishes?
9. What was the U.S. supreme court decision which outraged colonists and inflamed the north
in anger?
10. When and where did Southerners open fire, officially starting the civil war?

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