The undermentioned inquiry asks you to compose a clear essay that analyzes South Carolina’s grounds for splintering from the Union. Use both the paperss listed on following two pages and your cognition of the clip period. You may besides utilize the clip line you antecedently completed. ( 100 points )
1. What were South Carolina’s stated grounds for splintering from the United States in December. 1860? Do you believe that the declared grounds were the complete account for South Carolina’s sezession? Was South Carolina justified in splintering?
Explain your reply in a well-organized essay that demonstrates your apprehension of the paperss and your cognition of the clip period. Answer: In my sentiment. South Carolina merely has one ground for splintering from the United States. South Carolina wrote down all of their grounds why for wining. Although. I believe that their grounds were non complete or had adequate “good” logical thinking. South Carolina merely had one truly good ground for splintering. I believe South Carolina did non hold plenty powerful grounds for splintering.
Throughout South Carolina’s Secession. They chiefly discussed the Government and how the United States takes attention of us. They besides discussed what they don’t like about the United States Government. South Carolina besides talked about the errors and feelings they had about the United States Constitution. This proves they merely had one ground for seceding.
In excerpt one and two below. South Carolina starts speaking about freedom and the rights United States had at that clip. In excerpt two. it states ; “An amendment was added [ to the United States Constitution ] . which declared that the powers non delegated to the United States by the Constitution. nor prohibited by it to the States. are reserved to the States. severally. or to the people. ” This statement says that South Carolina believed they didn’t have any say in where they lived or how they ruled.
In excerpt four. they continued this treatment. Peoples from South Carolina. kept stating how they didn’t agree with the United States Constitution. They proved this statement by stating ; “These ends it endeavored to carry through by a Federal Government. in which each State was recognized as an equal. and had separate control over its ain establishments. ” The people of South Carolina said this similar it’s a bad thing. This statement besides proved that how much they didn’t agree with The United States Government.
The grounds why South Carolina seceded from The United States still are non good adequate grounds. I still believe they should hold had more than one ground to go their ain authorities. I believe their grounds weren’t justified grounds and the statements above proved this. South Carolina could hold turn out a batch more grounds to splinter from the United States but they decided non to.
Document A
Beginning: Confederate States of America Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union ; adopted December 24. 1860
Excerpt 1
Therefore were established the two great rules asserted by the Colonies. viz. : the right of a State to regulate itself ; and the right of a people to get rid of a Government when it becomes destructive of the terminals for which it was instituted. And concurrent with the constitution of these rules. was the fact that each Colony became and was recognized by the female parent Country a FREE. SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT STATE.
Excerpt 2
…an amendment was added [ to the United States Constitution ] . which declared that the powers non delegated to the United States by the Constitution. nor prohibited by it to the States. are reserved to the States. severally. or to the people.
Excerpt 3
…in every compact between two or more parties. the duty is common ; that the failure of one of the undertaking parties to execute a material portion of the understanding. wholly releases the duty of the other ; and that where no supreme authority is provided. each party is remitted to his ain judgement to find the fact of failure. with all its effects.
Excerpt 4
The terminals for which the Constitution was framed are declared by itself to be “to organize a more perfect brotherhood. set up justness. insure domestic repose. supply for the common defense mechanism. advance the general public assistance. and procure the approvals of autonomy to ourselves and our descendants. ” These terminals it endeavored to carry through by a Federal Government. in which each State was recognized as an equal. and had separate control over its ain establishments.
Excerpt 5
…a new policy. hostile to the South. and destructive of its beliefs and safety.
Excerpt 6
We. hence. the People of South Carolina … solemnly declared that the Union heretofore bing between this State and the other States of North America. is dissolved…
Document B
Beginning: Jefferson Davis’s inaugural reference. February 8. 1861
“Resolved. That the care inviolate of the rights of the States. and particularly the right of each State to order and command its ain domestic establishments harmonizing to its ain judgement entirely. is indispensable to that balance of power on which the flawlessness and endurance of our political cloth depend ; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the dirt of any State or Territory. no affair what stalking-horse. as among the gravest of offenses. ”
Document C
Beginning: Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural reference. March 4 1861
Apprehension seems to be among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration. their belongings. and their peace. and personal security. are to be endangered. There has ne’er been any sensible cause for such apprehensiveness. Indeed. the most ample grounds to the reverse has all the piece existed. and been unfastened to their review. It is found in about all the published addresss of him who now addresses you.
I do but quote from one of those addresss when I declare that “I have no intent. straight or indirectly. to interfere with the establishment of bondage in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to make so. and I have no disposition to make so. ” Those who nominated and elected me did so with full cognition that I had made this. and many similar declarations. and had ne’er recanted them. ”
Document D
Beginning: Map of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. K12 Inc.
