Compare and contrast the development of the North and the South from 1800 to 1860. Why did these sections become so different?
2- Detail the growth of democratic politics, the evolution of religious faith, the growth of cities, and the rise of reform movements between the 1820s and the 1850s. Which groups did various reform groups target? Did these movements produce class, gender,
and sectional conflict? 3- Explore the theory and practice of Manifest Destiny. How did its evolution help cause sectional conflict? 4- Trace the rise and decline of the Whig Party and its replacement by the Republicans in 1856. Why was the Republican Party able to be much more successful much faster than had the Whig Party? 5- Outline the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War.