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Practice Essay Questions 243-d

DOCUMENT 4

Source: The Northwest Ordinance, 1787.
“Art. 3. Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools
and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. . . .
Art. 6. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of
crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from
whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and
conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.”

DOCUMENT 5

Source: The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793.
“For the better security of the peace and friendship now entered into by the contracting parties, against all infractions of
the same, by the citizens of either party, to the prejudice of the other, neither party shall proceed to the infliction of
punishments on the citizens of the other, otherwise than by securing the offender, or offenders, by imprisonment, or any
other competent means, till a fair and impartial trial can be had by judges or juries of both parties, as near as can be, to the
laws, customs, and usage’s of the contracting parties, and natural justice. . . . And it is further agreed between the parties
aforesaid, that neither shall entertain, or give countenance to, the enemies of the other, or protect, in their respective states,
criminal fugitives, servants, or slaves, but the same to apprehend and secure, and deliver to the state or states, to which
such enemies, criminals, servants, or slaves, respectively below.”

DOCUMENT 6

Source: “Keep Within Compass,” circa 1795.

Text at top reads: “How blest the
Maid whose bosom no headstrong
passion knows, Her days in Joy she
Passes, her nights in soft repose.”
Text at bottom reads: “Virtuous
Woman is a Crown to her Husband.”
“Keep Within Compass,” engraving, c. 1795. Courtesy of Winterthur Museum,
Garden & Library, Gift of Henry Francis du Pont, 1954.0093.001 A.
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