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AICE US History I – Origins of the Civil War Name: _______________________________

1. How were the seeds of conflict planted in the early national period?2. Evaluate the impacts of slavery and of expansion in the growing divide between North & South.

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What is the big message?

How does this help answer Q1 and/or Q2?

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What is the overall message of these documents in relation to questions 1 & 2? What is the story they tell?

AICE US History I - Origins of the Civil War Name: ______________________________________

1.How were the seeds of conflict planted in the early national period?

2.Evaluate the impacts of slavery and of expansion in the growing divide between North & South.

Document A

Excerpt of the Declaration of Independence: July 4, 1776

…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…

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Excerpt of an early draft of the Declaration of Independence. This was part of Jefferson’s original draft. It was deleted after much debate at the Continental Congress.

…He (George III) has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another…

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Excerpt from Northwest Ordinance; July 13, 1787

An Ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio – Passed by the National Legislature under the Articles of Confederation

Art. 6. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.

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US Constitution Article I, Sec. 2

… Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons…

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US Constitution Article I, Sec. 9

… The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person…

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US Constitution Article IV, Sec. 2

… No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due…

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Louisiana Purchase 1803

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Year & Method of Emancipation by State and/or Territory

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