Sec. 348.—­a.  Who was Mrs. Stowe?  What view did she take of slavery?

b.  Were there any good points in the slave system?

c.  Why is this book so important?

CHAPTER 34

Sec.Sec. 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?

Sec. 352.—­a.  Give an account of the early life and training of Abraham
Lincoln.

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

Sec.Sec. 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 attitude of the Senate and House on the Kansas question.

Sec.Sec. 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.

Sec. 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 Constitution give Congress over a territory?  (Art.  IV, Sec. 3.)

Sec. 358.—­a.  Explain carefully the quotations from Lincoln’s speeches.

b.  Was the doctrine of popular sovereignty necessarily favorable to slavery?  Give illustrations to support your reasons.

c.  Was Douglas’s declaration in harmony with the decision of the Supreme Court?

Sec.Sec. 359, 360.—­a.  Compare the attitude 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 principal issues.  Underline the name of the candidate elected.

TOPICS FOR SPECIAL WORK

a.  John Brown in Kansas or at Harper’s Ferry.

b.  The career, to this time, of any man mentioned in Chapters 33 and 34.

c.  Any one fugitive slave case:  Jerry McHenry in Syracuse (A.J.  May’s Antislavery Conflicts), Shadrach, Anthony Burns.