=Study Questions.= _1._ Who was the "Mill boy of the Slashes"? _2._ Name some of our great men besides Clay who loved books. _3._ What could Clay do better than the other boys? _4._ What help did he get from the Chancellor of Virginia? _5._ Why did Henry Clay form a debating club? _6._ Where was Ashland? _7._ What was Clay's first great work in Kentucky? _8._ What is a Speaker of the House of Representatives? _9._ What did Clay do in stirring up the war spirit? _10._ Why did Clay speak for the Missouri Compromise? _11._ What was the Compromise Tariff? _12._ Why call Clay a peacemaker? _13._ How many times did Henry Clay run for president? _14._ Why was Clay sent back to the United States Senate in 1850? _15._ Picture the scene when Clay made his last great speech. _16._ Who was Webster? _17._ Why did he play in the woods? _18._ What proof that he loved books too? _19._ Why were Daniel Webster's feelings hurt at Exeter? _20._ Why did students like Webster? _21._ How did he reward his parents for sending him to college? _22._ What was Webster's view of the War of 1812? _23._ Picture Webster in 1830. _24._ Quote something from his speech in reply to Hayne. _25._ Who praised Webster for his speech against nullification? _26._ Do you think Harrison selected the best man for Secretary of State? _27._ Why did his friends in the North blame Webster for the Seventh of March speech? _28._ How were Webster's last days affected by public opinion? _29._ Who was Calhoun and what did roaming in the woods and fields do for him? _30._ Where did he go to college and when did he reach Congress? _31._ What position did he take in the War of 1812? _32._ Why did he favor the tariff and later favor the nullification of the tariff? _33._ What office did President Monroe give him? _34._ What effect had the "South Carolina Exposition"? _35._ What did South Carolina do? _36._ How was a clash averted? _37._ What did Calhoun say of the Abolitionists? _38._ What did he say of the Union? _39._ What did he say of slavery? _40._ What was Calhoun's position on the Compromise of 1850? _41._ What were his last words? =Suggested Readings.= HENRY CLAY: Wright, _Children's Stories of American Progress_, 159-178; Brooks, _Century Book of Famous Americans_, 145-155; Anderson, _United States Reader_, 281-285; Frost, _The Mill Boy of the Slashes_. DANIEL WEBSTER: Baldwin, _Four Great Americans_, 125-186; Brooks, _Century Book of Famous Americans_, 37-48; Hart, _How Our Grandfathers Lived_, 341-344; Bolton, _Famous American Statesmen_, 177-229. JOHN C. CALHOUN: Brooks, _Century Book of Famous Americans_, 140-144; Rogers, _The True Henry Clay_, 248-254. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE LIBERATOR AND MARTYR A POOR BOY BECOMES A GREAT MAN [Sidenote: =Abraham Lincoln, 1809=] [Sidenote: =Moves to Indiana at the age of seven=]