You must answer the folowing 6 prompts: (my history class notes are inculded)

DISCUSS THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN US SOCIETY THROUGH THE FIRST CENTURY OF ITS DEVELOPMENT, FROM THE INCEPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION.
1. Provide a descriptive chronology of events leading up to the Civil War. Why do these events cause the eruption of a civil war in the US? Be sure to include the concepts of ideology and politics.
2. Why the South is so different from the North in antebellum US. Describe Southern culture. How important is slavery to the South, why do they defend it so strongly and what are some of the arguments justifying slavery? Describe slavery in the southern US as opposed to slavery in Hispanic America.3. Why does the North win the Civil War? Discuss military and industrial differences between the North and South and the broader question of the nature of the two societies and how the differences reflected in the exercise of the war. Give examples of how the North and South conducted the war differently.4. Describe the events leading up to Reconstruction. Be sure to discuss the transformation of Union war aims and the rationale behind the Emancipation Proclamation. Describe Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, as well as the plans of Johnson and the Radical Republicans. How did Johnson and the Congress differ over Reconstruction? How did the actions of the South influence Reconstruction?5. Describe the successes and failures of Reconstruction. Be sure to discuss the Civil War amendments and the condition of the former slaves. Discuss the support or lack of support for Reconstruction in the North and South — be specific. Why did Reconstruction succeed or fail?
6. US foreign policy during the first quarter of the 19th century. Explain the significance of the major foreign relations issues and events, how they relate to the US as a modernizing nation. What effect, if any, these issues have today.
and use these terms (only 10 out of 28 need to be used) :
slave codes

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Dred Scott Case

John Brown

Emancipation Proclamation

54th Massachusetts Regiment

“slaves in arms”

Nathan Bedford Forest

Tenure of Office Act

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

popular sovereignty

Louisiana Purchase

Embargo Act

Hartford Convention

Adams – de Onís Treaty

Monroe Doctrine

Marbury v. Madison

McCulloch v. Maryland

“corrupt bargain”

Charles River Bridge Case

2nd Great Awakening

War of 1812

Alien & Sedition Acts

Charles Finney

John Marshall

Craftown & Hilltown