PURPOSE: 

To think about how the US Civil War might have been prevented.
TASKS:

1. Drawing on what you have learned from your reading, post a short paragraph
below that answers the following question:

How might slavery have been abolished without war? What events and trends in the
antebellum period made going to war more likely? And what might have been done
to make a war to abolish slavery less likely? Of these actions, which of them were
the most feasible? What were the most important missed opportunities for securing
a peaceful end to enslavement without resort to war?