1.What did Nat Turner's rebellion represent for southern slaveholders?
- What were some of the most important achievements of the feminist and abolitionist movement of this era?
- Why in your opinion did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863? What had changed?
4.What could the Radical Republicans have done to ensure the civil rights and economic and political liberties of the freedmen and women following the Civil War? How different would the country have looked and what would have been the short and long-term impact of such measures had they been implemented?