3. When reading about Fremont's explorations look up on the map every one
of them. What do you think of him?
4. Who was Kit Carson, and how did he help Fremont?
5. Locate on your map every acquisition of territory from the end of the
Revolution to 1848.
6. Imagine yourself going to California across the plains and mountains in
1849, and give an account of your experiences.
CHAPTER XV
THREE GREAT STATESMEN
JOHN C. CALHOUN
The territory which we obtained from Mexico added much to the vastness of
our country. But it led to a bitter dispute between the North and the
South over slavery. For the North said: "All this territory shall be
free." The South said: "It must all be open to slavery."
[Illustration: John C. Calhoun.]
The trouble over slavery was no new thing. It had begun to be really
serious and dangerous many years before the Mexican War. To understand
why, a year or two after the close of this war, there should be such deep
and violent feeling over the question of making the territory free or
opening it to slavery, we must go back to some earlier events in the
history of the Union.
In doing so, we shall find it simpler to follow the careers of three great
statesmen, John C.
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