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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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:Senator Stephen Douglas is being punished by Columbia (the United States) for having caused the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1954, which established "popular sovereignty" for each territory to decide for itself whether to accept or prohibit slavery.  This resulted in many "mini-Civil Wars" with much strife in each territory as it tried to decide whether to accept slavery, and this Nebraska-Kansas Act was the single biggest step toward the Civil War.  The cartoonist was almost a certainly a Republican, although not necessarily an abolitionist (the cartoon is about the territories, not slavery in the South).  (Instructor)
    
7.  "Remember the Alamo!"  Why?
 
7.  "Remember the Alamo!"  Why?
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