What Is The Argumentative Essay About Mizzou Vs Zuu

Title: Mizzou vs KU
Introduction:
I. Attention Getter: MIZ-ZOU! Students of the University of Missouri know that when someone calls out the first three letters of Mizzou you call out the last three no matter what. But suppose I called out ROCK JOCK JAY HAWK, none of you would say GO KU. You all might boo, or give me dirty looks or even call out statements that wouldn’t be appropriate for me to repeat.
II. Connection to audience: We all here go to the University of Missouri and most of us have a reasonable sense of school spirit. Some of us here have even been raised as Mizzou (football) fans.
III. Credibility: I grew up in Kansas for 17 years. I was about a 30 min drive from Lawrence, Kansas so I was raised in area where people were mostly

Body:
1) Slavery was a big factor in the border war
a) Before the war, many slaves were found in the south and lived in plantations
i) In 1860, 89 percent of the nation 's African Americans were slaves; blacks formed 13 percent of the country 's population and 33 percent of the South 's population (Mintz, 2015) ii) By 1850, about 64 percent of slaves lived on cotton plantations which were found in the south. (Mintz, 2015)
b) Slavery was economically beneficial to the south
i) The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 gave slavery a new life in the United States. Between 1800 and 1860, slave-produced cotton expanded from South Carolina and Georgia to newly colonized lands west of the Mississippi. (Howard, 2013) ii) By the 1830s, "cotton was king". It was also king in the United States, because America was competing for economic strength with the rest of the world. Plantation-grown cotton was the foundation of the southern economy. (Howard, 2013) iii) If the South was a separate country from the North, it was the fourth wealthiest nation in the world in 1860. (Howard,

Only 26 years after the end of the brutal Civil War, the Missouri-Kansas series of sports began. (Tucker, 2007) In the early football match ups, the sidelines would have some actual Civil War Veterans from both sides. With the war still fresh in their minds, these veterans put passion in their belief in teams in which fans and coaches got into the rivalry. (Mellinger, 2015)
b) Now with Mizzou out of the Big 12 and in the SEC, games against Kansas haven’t been planned.
i) Mack Rhoades, Mizzou’s hired athletic director stated many times that he would like to see the Border War continued even with the teams not being in the same conference. (Mellinger, 2015) ii) The KU administration have yet to give a public response but the answer is leaning towards a no. With the KU football program now dark place, and scheduling a certain loss wouldn’t be something the administration is leaning towards doing. But on the other side the basketball program at KU is regularly in the top 10 and seen on national television constantly so a game with Missouri wouldn’t be beneficial to KU trying to schedule with tough teams. (Mellinger, 2015) But we can never say