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QUESTIONS

  • 1. Was the Constitution of the United States satisfactory to all?

  • 2. What two parties sprang up, and what was the result?

  • 3. Give the State-Rights theory of the Union.

  • 4. The National theory.

  • 5. Which was the true one?

  • 6. What does Mr. Lodge say on the subject?

  • 7. From what section did the first threats of secession come?

  • 8. What did the governor of Connecticut declare?

  • 9. Which theory did Virginia hold of the Union?

  • 10. With what express understanding had she adopted the Constitution?

  • 11. By whose influence did the North change the original conception
    of the Federal tie?

  • 12. Why did the people of the West hold the same opinion as the
    North?

  • 13. In what ways were the interests of the North and South opposed?

  • 14. What was the chief cause of the difference in the sections, and
    what is said of it?

  • 15. Why did the South now feel uneasy in the Union?

  • 16. What is said of the Constitution?