BEFORE THE WAR 1. Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850) 3 2. Missouri Compromise (March 6, 1820) [Excerpts] 8 3. Daniel Webster’s Second Reply to Robert Y. Hayne (January 26–27, 1830) [Excerpts] 10 4. Wilmot Proviso (August 8, 1846) 14 5. Free Soil Party Platform (June 22, 1848) 15 6. Daniel Webster: Address before Congress (March 7, 1850) [Excerpts] 18 7. Resolves of the Southern Convention at Nashville (June 10–11, 1850) [Excerpts] 22 8. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) [Excerpts] 25 9. Kansas-Nebraska Act (May 30, 1854) [Excerpts] 27 10. Charles Sumner: Speech to the U.S. Senate (May 19, 1856) [Excerpts] 31 11. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857) [Excerpts] 32 12. Lecompton Constitution (September 1857) [Excerpts] 37 13. James H. Hammond: Speech to the Senate (March 4, 1858) [Excerpts] 38 14. Abraham Lincoln: House Divided Speech (June 16, 1858) 41 15. Stephen A. Douglas: Freeport Doctrine (August 27, 1858) 44 16. John Brown: Final Address to the Court (November 2, 1859) 45 17. Abraham Lincoln: Speech at Cooper Union (February 27, 1860) [Excerpts] 47 18. Constitutional Union Party Platform (May 9, 1860) 52 19. Republican Party Platform of 1860 (May 17, 1860) 53 20. Daniel Decatur Emmett: “Dixie” (1860) 56 21. The Crittenden Compromise (December 18, 1860) 57 22. South Carolina Ordinance of Secession (December 20, 1860) 60 23. Jefferson Davis: Farewell Address to U.S. Senate (January 21, 1861) 61 24. Jefferson Davis: Inaugural Address (February 18, 1861) 64 25. Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861) 67 1861 26. Editorial: “The Declaration of War,” Richmond Enquirer (March 5, 1861) 77 27. Confederate Constitution (March 11, 1861) [Excerpts] 78 28. Opinions Written by Cabinet Members on the Question of Sending an Expedition to Relieve Fort Sumter (March 29, 1861) 87 29. William H. Seward and Abraham Lincoln: Correspondence on Direction of Federal Policy (April 1, 1861) 90 30. Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard and Robert Anderson: Correspondence on Fort Sumter (April 11–12, 1861) 92 31. Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation Calling Militia into National Service (April 15, 1861) 94 32. Roger Jones: Union Correspondence Relating to Harpers Ferry (April 18–20, 1861) 96 33. Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation Declaring a Blockade of Southern Ports (April 19, 1861) 97 List of Documents
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