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HIST 15 Exercise Ch13 1. What does the painting convey about Comanche martial ski II? 2. How does the artis(s representation of Comanche bodies reflect attitudes about differences between Indian and European men? 3. What does the inclusion of this clause suggest about the stability of the northern Mexico border in the years before the war? 4. How might requiring the U.S. government to police the boundary create future problems for the independence of the Mexican government? 5. What does the treaty language suggest about American and Mexican attitudes toward the native people of the region? 6. How does Hammond distinguish between slavery in the abstract and slavery in practice? 6. What is Hammond's political argument for slavery, and why does he believe that slavery is necessary in order for democracy to function? 7. How do the Republicans root their opposition to slavery in the Constitution? 8. How does this argument differ from that of more traditional abolitionists such as Douglass? 9. Why was the condition of Kansas, where few slaves lived, so important to the Republican Party? 10. What does this image convey about Hugo's con󶂢ception of John Brown? 11. Why is Brown represented alone, without the pres󶂢ence of the guards and executioner who were present? 12. What is the significance of the light that fills the upper left corner of the image? 13. What is Hale's critique of northern actions on Slavery? 14. What future does he predict under a Republican presidential administration? 15. Why does Hale believe that all the slaveholding states should secede and found a new government?...