Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Daniel Webster Questions


After reading the Daniel Webster Reading please answer the following questions:


  1. Why did Henry Clay seek out assistance from Daniel Webster?

  1. It was said that Daniel Webster could, “make alive the sense of oneness, of Union, that all Americans felt but few could express.” Put that phrase in your one words

  1. List the five key features from the Compromise of 1850.

  1. From those compromises, what upset the North? The South?

  1. What was the moral dilemma that Daniel Webster faced? Defend the decision that Webster chose to take.

  1. Why was William Lloyd Garrison against the U.S. Constitution?

  1. Why did the South praise him for his actions while people from the North called him a traitor?

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