Impact of foreign influences (Britain and France)

Life in the Confederate States, including the responses of slaves

Resources available

Limitations on civil liberties during the War

Reasons for and responses to the Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

The nature of democracy in the North and the South

Radical Reconstruction from Congress

Responses of the White South

The Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction

Grant’s Reconstruction policies

Presidential Reconstruction: Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson

Reasons for and passage of Constitutional Amendments 13th, 14th, and 15th