Tag: Jefferson Davis
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In this 3-page double-spaced essay, critically analyze the ethics associated with the removal of this site of public history given the state’s racial and gendered history.
Removal and Renaming of Statues In 2017, UT Austin removed several confederate statues from their places of prominence on campus in the middle of the night. This action was part of a state of removals and renaming nationwide as several institutions grappled with the meaning and impact of these monuments. Years later, there are still…
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Using the textbook, lectures, and other course materials, trace the role of slavery in the buildup to the Civil War starting with the aftermath of the American Revolution,describe the following:The role of labor differences between the North and South; The Compromise of 1820; The Free-Soil Movement; Compromise of 1850; Kansas-Nebraska Controversy; the Election of 1860.
As the textbook states on page 482: “However much [Confederate President] Jefferson Davis and other southerners argued that succession and the war were about states’ rights, the states of the Lower South seceded in 1860-1861 primarily to preserve slavery. The South Carolina Declaration on the Immediate Causes of Secession explains that the state left the…