After reading Charles B. Dew’s Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War, write a 750 – 1,000-word essay answering the following question:
What were the causes of the American Civil War?
Here are a few questions to guide your thinking as you read the book and prepare your essay:
What three images did the secession commissioners from Lower South states evoke to convince the Upper South states of the necessity of secession?
How did Confederate leaders frame the causes of secession during and after the war? Were they consistent or did they contradict themselves?
How did this book affect your understanding of the causes of the American Civil War?
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