In his famous “cornerstone” speech of 1861, Alexander Stephens declared that the southern states had seceded to preserve which of the following?

At the dedication of the cemetery at what battlefield did President Lincoln famously declare that the Civil War would bring a “new birth of freedom” for the nation?

Given that this certificate was created to support Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 presidential campaign, which of the following does the eye at the top of the certificate likely represent?

In what way does this illustration reflect the nineteenth-century ideal of domesticity?

Wealthy southern planters feared that populist politicians within their respective states would mobilize which of the following groups?

The second Confiscation Act, passed in July 1862, declared that

Which of the following describes slavery in the South during the nineteenth century?

In 1858, in response to Abraham Lincoln’s assertions about slavery in the territories, Stephen Douglas

Children born in slave communities in the nineteenth-century South often shared which of these characteristics?

Which lists the early Civil War battles in correct chronological order, starting with the earliest?