DBQ 10: Causes of the Civil War



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Sectionalism Documents

PART I

DOCUMENT 1

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What conflict does the map represent?

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Based on the map, how did Congress attempt to resolve this conflict?

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DOCUMENT 2 (a, b, and c)

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Based on these documents, state two differences between the economies of the North and the South before the Civil War.

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DOCUMENT 3A

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Based on this document, state one reason the American Anti-Slavery Society opposed slavery.

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DOCUMENT 3B

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According to Thomas R. Dew, what is one reason slavery was important to Virginia?

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DOCUMENT 4

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According to Eric Foner, state one reason Southern slave owners supported the expansion of slavery into the West.

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DOCUMENT 5

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According to this resolution, what is one reason the Massachusetts legislature was opposed to the Mexican War?

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DOCUMENT 6

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Based on this document, what is one way these proposals favored the North?

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Based on this document, what is one way these proposals favored the South?

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DOCUMENT 7

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According to Batty and Parish, what was one reaction by South Carolina to the passage of federal tariffs?

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According to Batty and Parish, what was one Northern response to the actions taken by South Carolina regarding the tariff?

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DOCUMENT 8

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According to John B. Gordon, what was the Southern point of view regarding the power of states under the Constitution?

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According to John B. Gordon, what was the Northern point of view regarding the Union created under the Constitution?

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DOCUMENT 9

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Based on this map, why was Abraham Lincoln considered a sectional president?

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DOCUMENT 10

Excerpt from Dred Scott vs. Sanford, Supreme Court decision, 1857

… (T)he legislation and the histories of the times and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that neither… slaves, nor their descendents, whether they had become free or not, were… a part of the people… They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, whether in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect… And, accordingly, a Negro of the African race was regarded by them as an article of property…

According to this excerpt, what rights were denied to Dred Scott?

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What was the impact of this Supreme Court decision on the conflict between the North and the South?

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DOCUMENT 11

Harriet Beecher Stowe explains in the last chapter why she wrote the book [Uncle Tom’s Cabin] (she calls herself "the author").

"For many years of her life, the author avoided all reading upon or allusion to the subject of slavery, considering it as too painful to be inquired into, and one which advancing light and civilization would certainly live down. But, since the legislative act of 1850, when she heard, with perfect surprise and consternation, Christian and humane people actually recommending the remanding escaped fugitives into slavery, as a duty binding on good citizens,--when she heard, on all hands, from kind, compassionate and estimable people, in the free states of the North, deliberations and discussions as to what Christian duty could be on this head,--she could only think, These men and Christians cannot know what slavery is; if they did, such a question could never be open for discussion. And from this arose a desire to exhibit it in a living dramatic reality."

Why does Stowe say she wrote the book? What was she trying to accomplish?

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The legislative act of 1850 was also called "the Fugitive Slave Act".  From this paragraph, what do you think "the Fugitive Slave Act" did?

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DOCUMENT 12

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What reason did the state of South Carolina give for seceding from the Union? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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