276 Chapter 12 | War and EManciPation | Period Five 1844 –1877 Seeking the Main Point^277
Seeking the Main Point
As you read the documents that follow, keep these broad questions in mind.
These questions will help you understand the relationship between the doc-
uments in this chapter and the historical changes that they represent. As you
reflect on these questions, determine which themes and which documents best
address them.•
Describe the ways in which the arguments over secession and slavery echoed
older arguments about state and federal powers.•
Characterize the ways in which Northerners and Southerners identified
themselves as distinct peoples in these documents.•
In what ways did white Americans on both sides of the conflict try to define
African American identity to their own advantage?•
In what ways might the Civil War have been the inevitable consequence of
pre-Revolutionary America?13_STA_2012_ch12_275-306.indd 277 24/04/15 2:53 PM