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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated during the second year of the Civil War.

The upper south hesitated to secede at first.  What action by Abraham Lincoln drove most of them out of the United States?

Plymouth, “The Errand into the Wilderness,” Pilgrims, Salem, Puritans, Charles Sumner.  These terms/people are all associated with Virginia.

BEGIN THE CUMULATIVE SECTION.  Cumulative questions are worth five points.  Remember, if you see A and B or All of the above as options, always pick one of those options.   If you were a southerner, a historian, and looking to the coming Civil War in 1861 (and of course had access to class lectures), which of the following factors in Northern history might raise concern that the South would be taking on a pretty ferocious enemy?  Why?

John C. Calhoun had little political experience and no legal education in 1828.

The history of Reconstruction starts with Abraham Lincoln’s plans (1864-65), moves to President Johnson (1865-66), and ends with Congress (1866-77). How did Abraham Lincoln intend to reconstruct the South?

The Mexican-American War made some politicians nervous because it added so much land to the United States.  Why were politicians so concerned about new land?  Wasn’t that a good thing?

Some historians argue that the Civil War was inevitable  because North and South grew so different in the 1800s they could no longer belong to the same nation.  Which of the following contributed to that inevitability by creating separation between the two?

What was the class system of the Old South?

According to the lectures, this individual was one of the most successful presidents in American history. Who was this person, when was he president, and what did he do that was so incredible?