2. How does W.E.B. Du Bois characterize John Brown and his attack on
    Harper’s Ferry?

3. For what reasons does Zinn criticize the national government when discussing
    Brown’s execution?

4. Overall, how does Zinn characterize Lincoln? Provide examples.
 

5. Discuss the legal provisions of the Emancipation Proclamation (i.e., what did it
    do and what didn’t it do?).

6. Explain Hofstadter’s statement: The Emancipation Proclamation "had all the
    moral grandeur of a bill of lading."

7. What significance did the Emancipation Proclamation have on the war’s
    outcome?

8. What caused draft riots in 1863?
 

9. As the Civil War wore on, how did the South respond vis-à-vis slaves?
 

10. How did black women play an important part in the war?
 

11. In general, what position did most slaves take during the war?
 

12. How did the treatment of blacks in the Union army and northern cities
     foreshadow the limitations of emancipation?