Project Questions

1. Having read these documents, what would you say was the main reason for the growing tensions between the North and South that ultimately brought on the war?
2. How did people on both sides of the question use the ideas of the Founding Fathers to support their claims?
3. How did Northerners and Southerners use religious ideas, notions of God, and the Bible to endorse their points of view?
4. How did the tone of these articles and speeches change over time?
5. People in both the North and the South thought the other section was plotting against them. What were these alleged conspiracies, and what was the evidence for them? Do you believe either argument?
6. Central Question: What single cause lies beneath all other explanations for the Civil War?