Debate Topics:

Debate Topics

1.  Was John Brown justified in his attack on Harper¹s Ferry?

2.  Were the factory workers of the north better off than the slaves of the south?

3.  Coulld we have avoided the Civil War if the southern states had been able to annex western lands?

4.  Would slavery have ended earlier if freedom of speech had been allowed in the South?

5.  Could theCifil War have been avoided if John C. Freemont had been elected President of the United States in 1860?

6.  Would the slaves have benifited had the Dred Scott decision been for citizenship?

7.  Could the North and South have co-existed if Llincoln had allowed the South to keep federal lands in the ceceded states,