Dollar Chapter 13 Questions Essay

IB History of the Americas: Period 3 Kyra Isbell
Dollar Questions Nov. 23, 2014
“Dollar Chapter 13 Questions”
Pg. 207
1. The message the cartoonist is trying to convey through this cartoon is that the north and the south are both in essence “sleeping” until Mistress Colombia calls their attention to an important subject at hand, being the Mason-Dixon divide and how the Constitution is one document uniting one nation.
2. The significance of the two constitutions (one on Mistress Columbia’s Desk and the other being studied by the Southerners) is that the one on Mistress Columbia’s desk is showing that there is the Constitution as seen by the law and seeing it for how it was written and the one being studied by the Southerners showing that they are looking at it so closely and harshly that they are trying to find justification in having slaves and seeing no reason why they should stop being allowed to have them via the law.
Pg. 208
1. Northern and Western Democrats (more or less) adopted a platform of supporting popular sovereignty and Stephen A. Douglas for president. Southern Democrats adopted a platform of pro-slavery and John C. Breckenridge for president. The Republican Party adopted platform of containing slavery and Abraham Lincoln for president. Another new party, the Constitutional Union (mostly Southerners) adopted to head off secession but wouldn’t adopt Republican ideals.
2. Because Abraham Lincoln was voted president, most of the Southerners were highly upset because he wanted to abolish slavery therefore destroying their current way of life.
Pg. 210
1. The North in general either voted for Lincoln or for Douglas. The South generally voted for Breckinridge. The west was a fair split of all three.
2. The attitudes of the Southern voters towards the secession and how it relates to the party preferences in the 1860 were generally seen as the states choosing to not be involved in the fight either for or against slavery.
3. Douglas did so poorly in the North and in the South because the platform he was running on was not appealing to either party or to a large general audience.
Pg. 212
1. South Carolina’s secession from the Union was due to the struggle for the right of self-government and they thought the form of government became destructive to the ends for which it was established, that they thought it was the right of the people to establish or demolish slavery, not the governments.
2. This document can be compared to document 6.6 in the way that it is a groups choice (in the first documents case a Minority’s choice) to make its rules, not by the people who rule it.
3. The underlying grievance South Carolina had with the Union was the war waged against Slavery; they didn’t want to be a part of.

Pg. 214
1. Lee meant that the South has been done wrong by the North’s attacks.
2. The Southerners felt such a strong connection with their state because that is their home, that was how they lived and they lived “at peace” with it and themselves, they didn’t want change because slavery worked in their favor.
3. In taking a

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