question archive 1) The Declaration states that the main reason South Carolina is seceding from the United States is the "increasingly hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the Institution of Slavery
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1) The Declaration states that the main reason South Carolina is seceding from the United States is the "increasingly hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the Institution of Slavery." What examples does the proclamation offer to support its argument?
2. How does the Declaration use the historical past to justify secession? Why do you think it was important for the people who wrote this Declaration to connect secession with events directly related to the founding of the United States?