d. Make a table of elections since 1788, with the leading parties, candidates, and principal issues. Underline the name of the candidate elected.
TOPICS FOR SPECIAL WORK
a. John Brown in Kansas or at Harper's Ferry.
b. The career, to this time, of any man mentioned in Chapters 33 and 34.
c. Any one fugitive slave case: Jerry McHenry in Syracuse (A.J. May's Antislavery Conflicts), Shadrach, Anthony Burns.
SUGGESTIONS
Preparation is especially important in teaching this period. The teacher will find references to larger books in Channing's Students' History.
Show how the question of slavery was really at the basis of the Mexican War. Geographical conditions and the settlement of the Western country should be carefully noted. A limited use of the writings and speeches of prominent men and writers is especially valuable at this point.
Have a large map of the United States in the class room, cut out and fasten upon this map pieces of white and black paper to illustrate the effects of legislation under discussion, and also to illustrate the various elections.
The horrors of slavery should be but lightly touched. Emphasize especially the fact that slavery prevented rather than aided the development of the South, and was an evil economically as well as socially.