Evaluate the Extent of Acquisition of New Territories Contributing to Sectional Tensions and the Outbreak of the Civil War
Question 1
Evaluate the extent to which acquisition of new territories contributed to growing sectional tensions and the outbreak of the Civil War.
Map of the Compromise of 1850 with a key that shows: Free state or territory, Territory open to slavery under the principle of popular sovereignty, Slave State or Territory
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In a government where sectional interests and feelings may come into conflict, the sole security for q permanence and peace is to be found in a Constitution whose provisions are inviolable...
An Anonymous Georgian, 'Plain Words for the North,' American Whig Review, XI1 (December 1850)
Advertisment warning freedmen in Boston of the slave catchers as a result of the Fugutive Slave Act.
Source: Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
An immoral law makes it a man's duty to break it, at every hazard...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, address on The Fugitive Slave Law (May 3,1851)
We charge . . . that [the Constitution] was formed at the expense of human liberty, by a profligate surrender of principle, and to this hour is cemented with human blood...
William Lloyd Garrison, 'The United States Constitution:' (1852)
Political Cartoon titled 'Forcing Slavery down the throat of the Free Soiler!'
Source: Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society
All for which the slave States have ever contended, is to be let alone and permitted to manage their domestic institutions in their own way...
President James Buchanan, fourth annual message to Congress (December 3,1860)
It was by the delegates chosen by the several States . . . that the Constitution of the United States was framed in 1787 and submitted to the several States for ratification...
President Jefferson Davis, message to the Confederate Congress (April 29,1861)
The [Secessionists] invented an ingenious s~phism, which, if conceded, was followed by perfectly logical steps, through all the incidents, to the complete destruction of the Union...
President Abraham Lincoln, message to Congress (July 4,1861)
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