1. Over what issue did the Southern Democratic and the Northern Republican parties seem totally at odds? Could not agree??hostile legislation _(Doc1) 2. How does this statement help to explain why so many non-slaveholding Southerners supported slavery?(Doc2) 3. Do you really think it’s true that Lincoln and the Republican Party is the cause of the problems, like this newspaper says? (Doc3) 4. According to George Templton Strong (Doc4), what were the factors in the US “breakup” do you think Sen Stephen Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska act the REAL cause?

Question

1. Over what issue did the Southern Democratic and the Northern Republican parties
seem totally at odds? Could not agree??hostile legislation _(Doc1)
2. How does this statement help to explain why so many non-slaveholding Southerners
supported slavery?(Doc2)
3. Do you really think it’s true that Lincoln and the Republican Party is the cause of
the problems, like this newspaper says? (Doc3)
4. According to George Templton Strong (Doc4), what were the factors in the US
“breakup” do you think Sen Stephen Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska act the REAL
cause?

5. What reason (Doc 5) did South Carolina give for leaving the US? Was this
true?
6. What does Jefferson Davis (Doc6) mean by “hostile legislation” and “raids of
organized bodies?