Since the midterm exam, we have been exploring how the South and the North developed into two separate communities, divided by their economic, cultural and political views. We have seen how that divide led to polarization in America’s national politics and ultimately led to the Civil War, which killed upwards of 750,000 Americans.
Following the end of Reconstruction, white southerners argued that the cause of the war was not about keeping slavery legal, but about the North’s aggressive attack on their culture and heritage, and some white southerners today still agree with this argument, argue that slavery had nothing to do with the war, and argue that their ancestors never believed in white supremacy. Historians, and most Americans, disagree with this view.
https://modesto.instructure.com/courses/37280/files/6223171?wrap=1
The sources you are allowed to use are as follows – note what is required and what is optional:
The textbook, The American Journey: a History of the United States, Volume 1 (To 1877) (7th Edition)
Goldfield, David; Abbott, Carl; Anderson, Virginia DeJohn; Argersinger, Jo Ann E.; Argersinger, Peter H.; Barney, William M., chapters 11-16 (required).
Cite if used for information or a quote: (Goldfield, 125), which is the author’s last name and page number).
Lectures provided in the modules for Weeks 5, 6 and 7 (One required, others optional – your choice)
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/crer3dVVitO
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/crer0AVVizg
Cite my lectures like this (Kerr lecture); Crash Course lectures cite with the title of the lecture/video.
Primary Sources from This Packet of Documents (link) download for This Period (choose at least three documents, Document M is REQUIRED).
Document B – George Fitzhugh, The Universal Law of Slavery, excerpt
Cite if used for information or quoted: (Fitzhugh)
Document C – Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, excerpt
Cite if used for information or quoted: (Jacobs)
Document F – William Lloyd Garrison, I Will Be Heard, excerpt
Cite if used for information or quoted: (Garrison)
Document K – Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, excerpt
Cite if used for information or quoted: (Douglass)
Document L – Excerpt from the Supreme Court Decision, Dred Scott v. Sanford
Cite if used for information or quoted: (Dred Scott)
Document M – Three Southern State Statements on Why They Seceded (this is REQUIRED)
Cite if used for information or quoted: (Secession)
