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Under what grounds does Daniel Webster

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Under what grounds does Daniel Webster

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HISTORY ASSIGNMENTS1Table of ContentsQuestion 1............................................................................................................................2Question 2............................................................................................................................3Question 3............................................................................................................................5Question 4............................................................................................................................6Question 5............................................................................................................................8References..........................................................................................................................10
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HISTORY ASSIGNMENTS2Question 1Under what grounds does Daniel Webster (Document #1) oppose the ability of a state tonullify federal laws, also known as the Doctrine of Nullification? What justifications doesSouth Carolina (Document #2) employ to defend their decision to nullify federal laws? Incomparing these two primary documents, whose arguments regarding the concept ofnullification are most persuasive to you and why?Daniel Webster tends to oppose the ability of the state to nullify the federal laws on thebasis of the fact that the act of nullification of a certain act might not help in the alteration of theconcerned situation. The author of the document further state that the nullification of the federallaws in case of the oppression of the concerned citizens of the state might not be helpful in thelegalization of the resistance that might be raised by the concerned strata of the citizens of thecountry (Glynn pp. 193). The ordinance put forth by South Carolina tends to put forth the factthat the state should be allowed the power to nullify a federal act in cases wherein the decisionsof the federation might lead to the conditions wherein the financial status as well as the incomeof the state are hampered or are stalled (Kight pp.521). This might help the state to put forth ananalysis of the various conditions that deal with the legislative power of the states and the powerthat the state legislatures hold in the matters that pertain to the nullification of the federal laws incases of oppression that is faced by the concerned state. The arguments that are put forth by theSouth Carolina government is observed to be more persuasive in the matters that deal with thevarious matters that might lead to the oppression of the state in various aspects like thatpertaining to the financial matters and the freedom of the state.
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HISTORY ASSIGNMENTS3Question 2In examining the 1851 political cartoon (Document #3), how are Southerners arguing againstNorthern protests of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act? To what extent does this image relate to theissues raised regarding nullification in Documents #1 and #2? How does the 1856 politicalcartoon (Document #4) relate to the issues arising from the Kansas-Nebraska Act? To whatextent did slavery complicate the process and politics of westward expansion in the 1840s and1850s?The political cartoon of 1851 puts forth a documentary on the arguments that areprovided by the concerned Southerners against the protests raised by the Northerners regardingthe Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The cartoon points out that the abolitionists of the North tend tofollow the conditions wherein the fugitive slaves should be granted their freedom unlike those ofthe South who tend to maintain the fact that the slaves are meant to serve their masters and workaccording to their wishes (Loc.gov). The nullification issues that was raised in the previousdocuments might be concluded to be having a connection with the scenario in discussion. Thecartoon depicts that the difference between the attitudes of the northerner and their Southernerson the matters that are related to the freedom of the fugitive slaves (Loc.gov). The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 stated that the territories of Kansas and Nebraska were free to choose as towhether the slavery act would be valid within the concerned country. The implementation of thisact led to the conditions wherein the concerned members of the Union had withdrawn theirsupport from the matters that pertained to the implementation of the antislavery act and thus hadhelped in the aggravation of the division among the democrats within the country. The process ofslavery had led to the conditions wherein there was observed a huge amount of discrepancyamong the politicians who belonged to the Northern and the Southern territories. The political
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