St. John’s College
Advantage Assignment # 3
The Union
Click on the link below and read the following two documents:
“Speech of the Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts,
January 26 and 27, 1830”
“Speech of Senator Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina,
January 27, 1830”
Also re-read the following two documents from the Great Issues book (These documents are
on the Chapter 20 worksheet):
South Carolina, Declaration of the Causes of Secession,
December 24, 1860
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
Going into the Civil War, most Southerners were adamant that
they had the legal justification to secede from the Union. Abraham Lincoln
argues just as passionately that the Southern states have no legal basis to
secede. Using the documents, the text, your knowledge of history and outside
sources, argue in favor of one of these positions. Make sure that as part of
your argument you address and refute the other opinion.
The assignment should be double spaced, and it should be at
least two pages. It is due by Wednesday
June 3rd.
