Chapter 31

§ 323.--_a_. Why were the people of South Carolina so opposed to any limitation of slavery? How did they show their opposition?

_b_. Had slavery disappeared in the North because people thought that it was wrong?

§§ 324, 325.--_a_. What suggestions were made by some in the North for the ending of slavery? What do you think of these suggestions?

_b_. For what did Garrison contend, and how did he make his views known? Why were these views opposed in the North?

§ 326.--_a_. Why were the Southerners so alarmed by Nat Turner's Rebellion?

_b_. What power had Congress over the mails? How would you have voted on this question?

§§ 327, 328.--_a_. Why is the right of petition so important? How is this right secured to citizens of the United States?

_b_. Why should these petitions be considered as insulting to slaveholders?

_c_. Why were the Southerners so afraid of any discussion of slavery?