Part 43 (1/2)

---- 349-351.--_a_. Who were the candidates in 1852? Who was chosen? Why?

_b_. What doctrine did Douglas apply to Kansas and Nebraska?

_c_. Why did Chase call this bill ”a violation of faith”?

_d_. Was Douglas a patriot? Chase? Sumner? Pierce?

-- 352.--_a_. Give an account of the early life and training of Abraham Lincoln.

_b_. What did he think of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

---- 353, 354.--_a_. What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the settlement of Kansas?

_b_. Describe the election. Do you think that laws made by a legislature so elected were binding?

_d_. Explain the difference in the att.i.tude of the Senate and House on the Kansas question.

---- 355, 356.--_a_. How was the Republican party formed? _b_. Were its principles like or unlike those of the Republican party of Jefferson's time? Give your reasons.

-- 357.--_a_. What rights did the Supreme Court declare a slave could not possess? Was a slave a person or a thing?

_b_. What power does the Const.i.tution give Congress over a territory?

(Art. IV, Sec. 3.)

-- 358.--_a_. Explain carefully the quotations from Lincoln's speeches.

_b_. Was the doctrine of popular sovereignty necessarily favorable to slavery? Give ill.u.s.trations to support your reasons.

_c_. Was Douglas's declaration in harmony with the decision of the Supreme Court?

---- 359, 360.--_a_. Compare the att.i.tude of Douglas and Buchanan upon the admission of Kansas.

_b_. Describe John Brown's raid. Was he a traitor?

GENERAL QUESTIONS

_a_. Give, with dates, the important laws as to slavery since 1783.

_b_. What were the arguments in favor of the extension of slavery?

Against it?

_c_. Find and learn a poem against slavery by Whittier, Lowell, or Longfellow.

_d_. Make a table of elections since 1788, with the leading parties, candidates, and princ.i.p.al issues. Underline the name of the candidate elected.