Concerns of various Americans in the years leading up to and of the Civil War...

Read, Think, and Discuss:

· American Yawp, chapters 13 and 14

Primary Sources

· A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union” (1861)

· Testimony by the Superintendent of Contrabands at Fortress Monroe Virginia, before the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, May 9, 1863

· Andrew Tait et al to the Union Convention of TN 9 Jan. 1865

· Fred, Burtz to Gov. J. E. Brown, 29 Mar. 1862

· Richard F. Lyon to his Excellency Joseph E. Brown Governor of Geo., 9 Aug. 1862

American Visions

Discussion Topic

Analyze the above primary sources assigned to your group. Then, in your initial post to this week's discussion forum, explain the concerns of various Americans in the years leading up to and of the Civil War. Consider how both Northerners and Southerners envisioned the South both before and during the war. Did their visions match reality? Whose visions mattered? How did the election of Lincoln and the creation of the Confederate nation shape these visions?