ANNUAL COL. J. J. MAHONEY
CONFEDERATE HISTORY ESSAY CONTEST
for
ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Fort Sumter Camp announces the topic for this year’s essay contest for high school students:

SECESSION

In Commemoration Of The Secession of South Carolina December 20, 1860

 Contestants may choose for a topic either:

1. Discuss the impact that one or more of these events had on Secession

• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
• The Louisiana Purchase
• The Missouri Compromise
• Tariff Acts of 1828, 1832, and 1833. The South Carolina Resolutions of 1828
• War with Mexico
• Wilmot Proviso
• Omnibus Bill of 1850
• Kansas- Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision
• John Brown's Raid and events following
• Slave Trade – Northern and Southern Interests. Federal Government Involvement.
• Slavery and Emancipation in The West Indies
• Election of Abraham Lincoln

 OR

2. Discuss the legal right and the process of Secession

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ST. ANDREW'S HALL PLAQUE

BROAD STREET

CHARLESTON, S.C.