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Instructions: Using George McGovern’s Abraham Lincoln, write an essay (10-page minimum) that answers all of the following questions:

• 
  
  
  Lincoln
  
  ’s personal history. What professional and political experience did Abraham Lincoln accumulate before becoming President? (Ch.1—Humble Beginnings, pp.15-29; Ch.2—Making of a Statesman, pp.30-35)
• The main conflict between North and South that led to war. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)? The Dred Scott decision (1857)? Why did each one bring
  
  
  Lincoln
  
  out of private life and “rekindle” his political career? (Ch. 2—Making of a Statesman, pp.35-41)
• Why saving the
  
  Union
  was important. What arguments did
  
  
  Lincoln
  
  make against southern secession? In what ways did he repress civil liberties during the war and otherwise “stretch the limits of presidential authority”? (Ch.3—Lincoln and the Union, pp.48-63)
• Freeing the slaves. McGovern states that the Emancipation Proclamation “transformed the meaning of the war and redefined…the notion of freedom in
  
  
  America
  
  .” What was
  
  
  Lincoln
  
  ‘s early attitudes toward slavery and racial equality? On what grounds did he justify emancipation? (Ch.4—Lincoln and Emancipation, pp.64-72)
• How the North won the war. McGovern states that
  
  
  Lincoln
  
  began the Civil War advocating “limited war” but later replaced it with “total war.” What does he mean by these? How did Generals Ulysses S Grant and William Sherman implement the policy of total warfare? (Ch.5—Lincoln and Total War, pp.80-87, 92-96)
• Republican reform. What major domestic reforms were passed during
  
  
  Lincoln
  
  ‘s 1^st and 2^nd terms? (Ch. 7—Rising Above the Fray, pp.119-122)