Explain the military and social reasons for the North’s victory and the South’s loss in the Civil War Examine and describe the Lower South states’

  • Explain the military and social reasons for the North’s victory and the South’s loss in the Civil War
  • 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
  • Chronicle and explain the shift in Union war aims in 1861 and 1862 from suppressing rebellion to ending slavery.