1. Were Southern politicians more or ...

1. Were Southern politicians more or less likely to own slaves than other white Southerners?

More likely over 50% in country government and in state legislation owned slaves.

2. Were higher level politicians more likely to own slaves than other politicians?

Yes county government owned 53%  legislation owned 68% .

3. What do these facts suggest to you about the nature of the Southern political system?

That the southern Politics were way different from the North and that they did what their people did no matter if it was right or wrong.

4. How uniform were the proportion of slaves in the population and the proportion of whites owning slave across the South?

They were pretty close most there were at most a 10% or 15% chance that slaves were in the population.

5. Was there a relationship between the number of slaves in a state's population and whether and when it seceded from the Union?

States that succeed 1st in the union had more slaves all across the board and the ones that remained in the union had the least.

6. What material advantages did the North possess on the eve of the Civil War?

Money , People, factories, railroads, input and outputs

7. Do you think material advantages are decisive in the outcome of wars? Why or why not?

yes if you don't have money to produce the materials needed or if you don't have the people to make and use them.

8. Why did troop strength peak in 1863?
The Emancipation Proclamation

9. Do you think that the differences in troop strength were responsible for the war's outcome?

Yes and No because they could have had strengths along with many weaknesses they just knew how to use it to their advantage.

10. How does the cost of the Civil War--in casualties and expense--compare to the cost of other American wars?

The casualty and death rate seemed to be higher then most any other wars but the cost was 3rd or 4th on like list using the union only so if you added the confederate i assume it would be the highest in price too.

11. Why do you think that the Civil War was so lethal?

because it was free northern states fighting against slavery and keeping the southern states as part of the country because they formed their own succession .

12. What was the radical Republican program for reconstructing the Union?
A way to try and better everything by giving free schools, spiting up places by military

13. What were the goals of the radical Republican program?
To make them not go against the Union anymore, To give everyone land and freedom, to protect them.

14. Why was the program unacceptable to President Andrew Johnson?
Because all the southerners were democrats.

15. Why do you think the North failed to follow through with policies that would have secured the rights and economic
status of the freedmen?

16. What were the major political and social achievements of Reconstruction?
prohibited slaver, defined national citizenship, denied confederates the right to hold office, denial of votes based on color or race was prohibited.