Tag: South Carolina Declaration
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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 (after the midterm). This question will require you to 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…
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Using Lincoln’s two famous documents from the war, how did he help to guide the nation through this trying time?
Description (a) Using Lincoln’s two famous documents from the war, how did he help to guide the nation through this trying time? (b) Does he deserve to be ranked as one of the nation’s most successful presidents? (c) Be sure to contrast Lincoln with the depiction in the South Carolina Declaration of secession.