STORY 4

Prompt (Choose One):

1. What role did benevolent reform, especially antislavery, play in the collapse of the Second Party System in the 1850s?
2. Western expansion directly resulted in a series of impossible compromises in the 1850s leading the United States toward Civil War. Was the Civil War inevitable?
3. Following the abolition of slavery in 1865, how and why did the United States abandon a national reform project that promised but failed to ensure “equal protection under the law” for all citizens, white and black?

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