HISTORY 2763 (U.S. to 1876)

Read the followin" rel="nofollow">ing, then write a 4 page paper satisfyin" rel="nofollow">ing the directions. Order Description ead the followin" rel="nofollow">ing, then write a 4 page paper satisfyin" rel="nofollow">ing the directions. Make sure to in" rel="nofollow">include outside sources that are used along with the two primary documents in" rel="nofollow">included in" rel="nofollow">in the directions. HISTORY 2763 (U.S. to 1876) Document-Based Assignment Directions: The followin" rel="nofollow">ing question requires that you construct a coherent essay that in" rel="nofollow">integrates your in" rel="nofollow">interpretation of Documents A and B and your knowledge of the period referred to in" rel="nofollow">in the question. High scores will be earned only by essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period. Question: Discuss the primary cause of the sectional crisis that led to a rebellion by most of the slaveholdin" rel="nofollow">ing states in" rel="nofollow">in the Union. Document A _____________________________________________________________________________________ June 16, 1858, Illin" rel="nofollow">inois Republican Party Convention. Abraham Lin" rel="nofollow">incoln began his campaign for the U.S. Senate with the followin" rel="nofollow">ing address: Mr. PRESIDENT and Gentlemen of the Convention. If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tendin" rel="nofollow">ing, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far in" rel="nofollow">into the fifth year, sin" rel="nofollow">ince a policy was in" rel="nofollow">initiated, with the avowed object, and confident promise, of puttin" rel="nofollow">ing an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only, not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opin" rel="nofollow">inion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed. “A house divided again" rel="nofollow">inst itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved---I do not expect the house to fall---but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thin" rel="nofollow">ing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public min" rel="nofollow">ind shall rest in" rel="nofollow">in the belief that it is in" rel="nofollow">in course of ultimate extin" rel="nofollow">inction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in" rel="nofollow">in all the States, old as well as new---North as well as South. Document B A Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union . . . Our position is thoroughly identified with the in" rel="nofollow">institution of slavery-- the greatest material in" rel="nofollow">interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate vergin" rel="nofollow">ing on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the in" rel="nofollow">institution, and was at the poin" rel="nofollow">int of reachin" rel="nofollow">ing its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose prin" rel="nofollow">inciples had been subverted to work out our ruin" rel="nofollow">in . . . That we do not overstate the dangers to our in" rel="nofollow">institution, a reference to a few facts will sufficiently prove. The hostility to this in" rel="nofollow">institution commenced before the adoption of the Constitution, . . . It has grown until it denies the right of property in" rel="nofollow">in slaves, and refuses protection to that right on the high seas, in" rel="nofollow">in the Territories, and wherever the government of the United States had jurisdiction. It refuses the admission of new slave States in" rel="nofollow">into the Union, and seeks to extin" rel="nofollow">inguish it by confin" rel="nofollow">inin" rel="nofollow">ing it within" rel="nofollow">in its present limits, denyin" rel="nofollow">ing the power of expansion. It tramples the origin" rel="nofollow">inal equality of the South under foot. It has nullified the Fugitive Slave Law in" rel="nofollow">in almost every free State in" rel="nofollow">in the Union, and has utterly broken the compact which our fathers pledged their faith to main" rel="nofollow">intain" rel="nofollow">in. It advocates negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes in" rel="nofollow">insurrection and in" rel="nofollow">incendiarism in" rel="nofollow">in our midst. It has made combin" rel="nofollow">inations and formed associations to carry out its schemes of emancipation in" rel="nofollow">in the States and wherever else slavery exists . . . Utter subjugation awaits us in" rel="nofollow">in the Union, if we should consent longer to remain" rel="nofollow">in in" rel="nofollow">in it. It is not a matter of choice, but of necessity. We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions of money, or we must secede from the Union framed by our fathers, to secure this as well as every other species of property. For far less cause than this, our fathers separated from the Crown of England.