Dissertation Writers: Examine and describe the Lower South states’ arguments for seceding from the Union after the election of 1860 and the initial reaction to secession by the Union and President Lincoln
- Explain the military and social reasons for the North’s victory and the South’s loss in the Civil War (CO#3, CO#5)
- Examine and describe the Lower South states’ arguments for seceding from the Union after the election of 1860 and the initial reaction to secession by the Union and President Lincoln (CO#4, CO#5)
- Chronicle and explain the shift in Union war aims in 1861 and 1862 from suppressing rebellion to ending slavery. (CO#5)
