What was the last successful compromise before the Civil War, and which of the following is NOT one of its provisions?

Initially, north and south both figured the Civil War would be quick and fast.  What are some of the realities of this war that neither side anticipated?

Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln were both Republicans and therefore members of the same political party.

In the Civil War in the East, Robert E. Lee successfully defended Richmond for years against northern attacks, despite being outnumbered and outgunned.

The class noted that Old South culture was class-oriented, suspicious of the outside world, somewhat uneducated, and underdeveloped.  This recalled what other period/culture covered in class, and what does this suggest?

Two times in American history, British army troops fled the battlefield under fire from American forces.    What were these two times?

The United States added tremendous amounts of new land in 1803, with the Louisiana Purchase, and again in the 1840s, with the acquisition of Texas and the far west.  In 1845, newspaperman John O’Sullivan wrote that he believed it was God’s plan for the United States to cover all of North America.

This is a law from Mississippi in 1866.   Section 2. Be it further enacted, that all freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes in this state over the age of eighteen years found  . . . with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawfully assembling themselves together either in the day or nighttime, and all white persons so assembling with freedmen . . .  or living in adultery or fornication with a freedwoman, free Negro, or mulatto, shall be deemed vagrants; and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in the sum of not exceeding, in the case of a freedman, free Negro, or mulatto, 150, and a white man, $200, . . . the free Negro not exceeding ten days, and the white man not exceeding six months. This law is an example of a

In the 1700s, which gigantic war plunged the British government into severe debt and changed the relationship between the American colonies and Great Britain?

In the Old South, about 80% of the region’s labor force was involved in agriculture by 1860.