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6. Explain the cartoon, and what you think the cartoonist's view was. The woman's quote begins, "You have been a bad boy, Steve, ever since you had anything to do with that Nebraska Bill ...."  
 
6. Explain the cartoon, and what you think the cartoonist's view was. The woman's quote begins, "You have been a bad boy, Steve, ever since you had anything to do with that Nebraska Bill ...."  
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I think it is describing when Steven Douglas made the pathetic law stating that each state could decide for it's self whether or not it wanted slavery. The women behind him is representing columbia, or the USA. I think the view point of the cartoonist was definitely against Douglas's law, but I can't really tell whether or not he is pro slavery, or against it.  
 
I think it is describing when Steven Douglas made the pathetic law stating that each state could decide for it's self whether or not it wanted slavery. The women behind him is representing columbia, or the USA. I think the view point of the cartoonist was definitely against Douglas's law, but I can't really tell whether or not he is pro slavery, or against it.  
    
7. Do you think it was possible to avoid the Civil War? Explain.
 
7. Do you think it was possible to avoid the Civil War? Explain.
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Personally, I don't think It would have been possible to avoid the Civil war at all.  
 
Personally, I don't think It would have been possible to avoid the Civil war at all.  
 
For one thing, the north and the south were so fired up at each other, that if we didn't have the war, we probably would still hate each other today.  
 
For one thing, the north and the south were so fired up at each other, that if we didn't have the war, we probably would still hate each other today.  
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And that could have been even more devastating then the Cilvil war, because now we have bombs, and tanks, and more updated weapons. I think it was a very important war.  
 
And that could have been even more devastating then the Cilvil war, because now we have bombs, and tanks, and more updated weapons. I think it was a very important war.  
 
One that history probably couldn't have done without.
 
One that history probably couldn't have done without.
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(I apologize for the obnoxious length of question number seven. I went a little over board :)
 
(I apologize for the obnoxious length of question number seven. I went a little over board :)
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