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Purpose: A MEAT-Con response is to help you write a well-developed, clear, and organized paragraph(s) in
response to the essential question.
Essential Question: Which of America’s founding ideals were redefined as a result of the Civil War?
● Ideals: a principle or standard of perfection that we are always trying to achieve
o (Equality, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, Democracy)
Directions: Use the following documents and color coding system to support your answer to the essential
question. Please make sure you include the following to have a well-developed response:
M
▪ Sets up the paragraph with brief background information
RED ▪ “Answers” the question (thesis)
Main Idea
E
▪ Information from the attached documents, texts, discussions, readings that
GREEN support the main idea
▪ The “stuff” you learned or found out about the topic (vocabulary, quotes,
Evidence statistics, facts)
A
▪ Explains the way the evidence you used supports the topic
BLUE ▪ Tells what you think and how you relate the evidence to the topic
▪ Shows your thought process and why you chose that particular evidence
Analysis
T
▪ Separates each of your pieces of evidence
BLACK ▪ Organizes your paragraph and makes it easy for the reader to follow (ex. Even
more importantly, moreover, a great example is, etc.)
Transitions
Con
▪ The last statement of your paragraph which summarizes your answer, your
PURPLE evidence
▪ Mentions important evidence in a new, concise way
Concluding ▪ Answers the question “So what?” (So why is your argument significant?)
Statement
***Before flipping the page, please review these directions as you should follow them for each of the documents:
Directions: Examine and analyze the document by reviewing the essential question and annotating the document
with information that could help you answer it. Once you have annotated the document, fill in the chart below that
will help you organize your thoughts and develop an initial analysis of the document that you could then include in
your MEAT Con.
Document 1
Essential Question: Which of America’s founding ideals were redefined as a result of the Civil War?
● Ideals: a principle or standard of perfection that we are always trying to achieve
o (Equality, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, Democracy)
1850 Census, Hinton Rowan Helper, “The Impending Crisis of the South”.
Upon these considerations, it is the opinion of the Court that the Act of Congress [Missouri Compromise]which
prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the
line [of 36 degrees, 30 minutes latitude] therein mentioned is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore
void; and that neither Dred Scott himself, nor any of his family, were made free by being carried into this territory;
even if they had been carried there by the owner with the intention of becoming a permanent resident….
Upon the whole, therefore, it is the judgment of this Court that it appears by the record before us that the plaintiff in
error [Dred Scott] is not a citizen of Missouri, in the sense in which that word is used in the Constitution; and that the
Circuit Court of the United States for that reason had no jurisdiction in the case, and could give no judgment in it.
We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object, and confident promise,
of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only, not ceased,
but has constantly augmented.
In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed. “A house divided against
itself cannot stand.”
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be
dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one
thing, or all the other.
Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest
in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall became
alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new—North as well as South.
Habeas corpus represents the legal right that a person in a free society has to not be whisked from his or her home without reason or
cause and to not be detained or punished by the authorities without getting a fair hearing in court and a chance of self-defense.
William Rawle in 1829 called the writ, "the great remedy of the citizen or subject against arbitrary or illegal imprisonment; it is the
mode by which the judicial power speedily and effectually protects the personal liberty of every individual, and repels the injustice of
unconstitutional laws or despotic governors."
Article 1, section 9 of the Constitution, restricting powers of Congress, forbids the suspension of habeas corpus except, "when in
Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public safety may require it."
April, 1861 Lincoln suspends habeas corpus between New York and Washington, fearing that Maryland would restrict troop
movements after violence in Baltimore. Chief Justice Taney, in response to the arrest of John Merryman, demands a writ of habeas
corpus. When this is refused, Taney ruled that Merryman should be set free, and declared that only Congress had the power to
suspend habeas corpus.
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● May, 1861: Lincoln suspends habeas corpus in Florida.
● December, 1861: Lincoln suspends habeas corpus in Missouri and approves martial law, in response to violence.
● September, 1862: Lincoln suspends habeas corpus nationwide, in response to fear of resistance to the draft.
● March, 1863: Congress passes the Habeas Corpus Act, making suspension of habeas corpus clearly legal.
● September, 1863: Lincoln again suspends habeas corpus, based on cases of rebellion, invasion, or the need to defend the public
safety
Whereas, on the twenty‐second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty‐two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the
following, to wit:
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty‐three, all
persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in
rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive
Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and
maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any
efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see
the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for
him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may
achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."