Unfolding Tensions: Sectional Conflict in Pre-Civil War America

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United States Since 1877 HIST1377Exam #3DUE DATE: Your response must be submitted to Blackboard before midnight on May 2, 2021. Essays will not be accepted after midnight, so please submit yours early to avoid any issues. RULES: • Your essay should be approximately 2-3 pages with double-spacing and one-inch margins (Please see the colored samples below for examples of the difference between single and double spacing). Due to time constraints. I will not grade anything beyond the third page. This is single spaced. This is single spaced. This is single spaced. This is single spaced. This is single spaced. This is single spaced. This is single spaced. This is single spaced. This is double spaced. This is double spaced. This is double spaced. This is double spaced. This is double spaced. This is double spaced. This is double spaced. This is double spaced. • Quotations are encouraged, and, at times even, necessary; however, you may forgo traditional citing practices. For example, you might write (Note: no page # is listed): Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln strongly opposed slavery, “but he was not an abolitionist.” • You must rely on the assigned materials exclusively (Chapters 11-14 in Brinkley’s Unfinished Nation and the Biography of America video lectures, “The Reform Impulse,” “Slavery,” The Coming of the Civil War,” “The Civil War”). For a satisfactory grade, both sources must be utilized. It is anticipated that most of your content will derive from Brinkley’s Unfinished Nation; therefore, information derived from the video lectures must be either bolded or underlined. For example, you might write: In the decades before the Civil war, voter turnout approached seventy percent. • It is anticipated that some video lectures will be more relevant than others; thus, focusing on the video lectures that are the most relevant is expected. •...