You are to answer only one of the following questions!  However, each of the questions is multi-layered, be sure to address each of the points raised in each question.
When answering your question, be sure to provide the number and copy-and-paste the question itself in your response.

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1). What issues were resolved by the Compromise of 1850? Who benefited more from its terms, the North or the South? Why?

2).Why did the Compromise of 1850 fail? Or would it have succeeded if the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 had either not been enacted or contained different provisions?
3).Why did Fort Sumter precipitate the Civil War? Or would the Confederacy—and the Union—have decided to go to war in any event?
4).What prompted Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation: the pressure exerted by antislavery Republican politicians or the pressure exerted by the thousands of “contrabands” who had freed themselves? How did the emancipation edict affect the politics and military affairs of the North?
5). Why were the battles at Gettysburg and Vicksburg significant? How did they change the tide of war strategically? Diplomatically? Psychologically?
6). What were the strengths and weaknesses of Grant’s and Sherman’s military strategy and tactics? How were their ways of warfare different from traditional military practice?

Why did the North win the Civil War?