5. In Washington's Farwell Address, Washington outlined several concerns for what he believed would threaten the union. Match the excerpt from Washington's Farewell Address to the threat that Washington was addressing in the excerpt: (4 points) Put responses in the correct input to answer the question. Select a response, navigate to the desired input and insert the response. Responses can be selected and inserted using the space bar, enter key, left mouse button or touchpad. Responses can also be moved by dragging with a mouse. “In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by Geographical discriminations —Northern and Southern— Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local Interests and views.” “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissention, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of is own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty". “It is important likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country, should inspire caution. In those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres. Avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another… To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for tho’ this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free Governments are destroyed.” “While then every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value! they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves which so frequently afflict neighboring countries not tied together by the same government, which their own rivalships alone would be sufficient to produce, but which opposite foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate and embitter... In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.”
For each excerpt from Washington's Farewell Address, we need to match the correct threat that he was cautioning against:
1. “In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by Geographical discriminations —Northern and Southern— Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local Interests and views.”
- **Threat of sectionalism**: Washington warned against the dangers of dividing the nation into geographical factions, which would pit different parts of the country against each other and weaken the unity of the United States.
2. “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissention, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism...”
- **Threat of political parties and factionalism**: Washington was concerned about the negative impact of political factions dominating politics and leading the country toward despotism.
3. “It is important likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country, should inspire caution. In those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres...”
- **Threat of concentration of power and constitutional usurpation**: Washington emphasized the importance of separation of powers and the danger of any one branch of the government overreaching its constitutional bounds.
4. “While then every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength...”
- **Threat of disunion and loss of collective benefit**: Washington highlighted the value of the Union and the dangers of disintegration, reminding the country of the collective benefits and security provided by being united.
Insert each explanation into the matching statement from Washington's Farewell Address.