Paper Assignment

TOPIC: Secession

THESIS: The United.States was dividing within the North and South following matters relating to States Rights and disagreements concerning tariffs but the greatest was slavery. Slavery which was legal in the South but gradually banned by the northern states and was followed by bitter debates erupting over whether or not slavery would be permitted in those territories. Southerners feared it was only a matter of time before they would be controlled by their government by abolitionists, and slavery would completely be outlawed. Withdrawal of the Southern States lead to the establishment of Civil War and the Confederacy. It was the most severe secession movement in the history of the United States and it was defeated between 1861 and 1865 when the Confederate armies in the Civil War were defeated by the Union armies.

TITLE: Division Between the North and South.