{"id":26294,"date":"2024-05-20T18:02:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T18:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/compare-the-1861-cornerstone-speech-by-alexander-stephens-vice-president-of-the-confederacy-with-the-1861-essay-by-abolitionist-rev-william-patton-titled-the-american-crisis-or-the-true-issue-sl\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T18:02:32","slug":"compare-the-1861-cornerstone-speech-by-alexander-stephens-vice-president-of-the-confederacy-with-the-1861-essay-by-abolitionist-rev-william-patton-titled-the-american-crisis-or-the-true-issue-sl","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/compare-the-1861-cornerstone-speech-by-alexander-stephens-vice-president-of-the-confederacy-with-the-1861-essay-by-abolitionist-rev-william-patton-titled-the-american-crisis-or-the-true-issue-sl\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare the 1861 Cornerstone Speech by Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy with the 1861 essay by abolitionist Rev. William Patton titled, The American Crisis; or, the True Issue, Slavery or Liberty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Write a 2-3 page essay discussing the<br \/>\nquestions below. Give citations from both the textbook by Eric Foner and<br \/>\n primary documents as necessary. Choose either Chicago style footnotes<br \/>\nor MLA style citations. Essays should be double spaced in 12-point<br \/>\ntypeface with one-inch margins.<\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Compare the 1861<em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> Cornerstone Speech<\/em> by Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy with the 1861 essay by abolitionist Rev. William Patton titled, <em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The American Crisis; or, the True Issue, Slavery or Liberty?<\/em><br \/>\n These writers represent opposing viewpoints regarding the secession of<br \/>\nthe Southern states from the Union. Where do they agree and disagree<br \/>\nregarding the cause and justification for secession? What audience is<br \/>\nAlexander Stephens addressing in his speech, what is the occasion and<br \/>\npurpose, and why is it important to the South? What audience is William<br \/>\nPatton addressing in his essay, what is the purpose, and why is it<br \/>\nimportant to the North? (For extra points: Compare Stephens and Patton<br \/>\nto the first paragraph of the primary document,<em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> The Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession<\/em> (1860) in Chapter 14, page 968 of Foner.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write a 2-3 page essay discussing the questions below. Give citations from both the textbook by Eric Foner and primary documents as necessary. Choose either Chicago style footnotes or MLA style citations. Essays should be double spaced in 12-point typeface with one-inch margins. Compare the 1861 Cornerstone Speech by Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[30],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/26294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/26294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=26294"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=26294"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=26294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}