Discuss the Strategy Used by Southern Extremists to Destroy the Union

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Essay

Discuss the strategy used by southern extremists to destroy the Union. Why was this strategy successful? What do election returns for delegates to secession conventions reveal about the nature and extent of the opposition to secession in the South?

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Definitions:

C-13 NMR

A type of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy that focuses on the detection of carbon-13 isotopes to determine the structure of organic compounds.

Off Resonance Splitting

A phenomenon in NMR spectroscopy where the splitting of signal occurs away from the resonance frequency due to interactions with neighboring atoms.

H-NMR Spectra

The set of signals obtained in hydrogen-1 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which provides information on the molecular structure, especially about the environment of hydrogen atoms in a compound.

Quintet

A term often used in NMR spectroscopy to describe a signal pattern consisting of five peaks, indicative of the surrounding nuclear environment in molecules.