1.  Why was national expansion a problem for Whig politicians like Abraham Lincoln and Alexander Stephens? 

2.  What made proponents of the "Southern Address" fear they were targets of "aggressive acts of a kindred character"? 

3.  What prompted William Seward's discovery that "there is a higher law than the Constitution"?

For a Mathew Brady portrait of Alexander Stephens, see this carte de visite at the National Portrait Gallery.

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