Focus points
• How far did slavery cause the Civil War?
• What was the significance of Lincoln’s election as president?
• Why was the North able to win the war?
• Did the war change anything?

Specified content
• Causes and consequences of the American Civil War, 1820–77:– differences between North and South– slavery, slave states and free states, abolitionism– the 1860 election and secession of the Southern states– reasons for the North’s victory and the South’s defeat– the role of Lincoln– reconstruction and the extent of its succes