- How did a war to preserve the Union become a war to end slavery?
- How are American notions of liberty related to the Civil War?
- How did the Civil War transform the national economy and create a stronger nation-state?
Consider including the following in your paper: the sectional origins of the war (Northwest Ordinances, Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act, the Dred Scott Decision), the role of African Americans in winning the war and in defining the war’s consequences, women’s war efforts in the North and the South, ideas of liberty and republicanism, the market revolution’s effect on the outcome of the war
