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_c_. If a bill is vetoed by the President, how can it still be made a law?

---- 310.--_a_. Where did the United States government keep its money?

_b_. How did Jackson try to ruin the United States Bank?

---- 311-313.--_a_. Why did people wish to buy Western lands? How did the favoring the "pet banks" increase speculation?

_b_. What was done with the surplus? What was the effect of this measure?

_c_. How did Jackson try to stop speculation?

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---- 314, 315.--_a_. Why did "prices go down with a rush"?

_b_. Describe the Independent Treasury plan. Where is the nation's money kept to-day?

---- 316, 317.--_a_. State briefly the reasons for the split in the Republican party. Had you lived in 1840, for whom would you have voted?

voted? Why?

_b_. Give an account of the early life of Harrison.

_c_. Describe the campaign of 1840, and compare it with the last presidential campaign.

---- 318, 319.--_a_. What party came into power in 1841? Under the spoils system what would naturally follow?

_b_. To what party did Tyler belong?

_c_. Why was it difficult for the government to carry on its business without a bank or a treasury?

---- 320.--_a_. What dispute had long existed with Great Britain?

_b_. Why did the British object to the boundary line laid down in the Treaty of 1783? Show on a map how the matter was finally settled.

---- 321, 322.--_a_. Explain carefully the application of electricity made by Morse. Of what advantage has the telegraph been to the United States?

_b_. How did the McCormick reaper solve the difficulty in wheat growing?

What were the results of this invention?

_c_. Compare its influence upon our history with that of the cotton gin.

GENERAL QUESTIONS

_a_. Why is the period covered by this division so important?

_b_. Give the princ.i.p.al events since the Revolution which made Western expansion possible.

_c_. Explain, using a chart, the changes in parties since 1789.

_d_. What were the good points in Jackson's administration? The mistakes?

TOPICS FOR SPECIAL WORK

_a_. Select some one invention between 1790 and 1835, describe it, explain the need for it, and the results which have followed from it.

_b_. The Erie Ca.n.a.l.

_c_. The career of Webster, Clay, or Calhoun.

_d_. Life and works of any one of the literary men of this period.

_e_. The Ashburton Treaty, with a map.

SUGGESTIONS TO THE TEACHER

The personality of Andrew Jackson, representing as he does a new element in social and political life, deserves a careful study. The financial policy of his administration is too difficult for children. With brief comparisons with present-day conditions the study of this subject can be confined to what is given in the text. Jackson's action at the time of the nullification episode may well be compared with Buchanan's inaction in 1860-61. The const.i.tutional portions of Webster's great speeches are too hard for children, but his burning words of patriotism may well be learned by the whole cla.s.s. The spoils system may be lightly treated here. It can best be studied in detail later in connection with civil service reform.

[Ill.u.s.tration: THE UNITED STATES IN 1859.]

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SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES, 1844-1859

Books for Study and Reading

References.--Scribner's _Popular History_, IV; _McMaster's_ _With the Fathers_, Coffin's _Building the Nation_, 314-324.

Home Readings.--Wright's _Stories of American Progress_; Bolton's _Famous Americans_; Brooks's _Boy Settlers_; Stowe's _Uncle Tom's Cabin_; Lodge's _Webster_.

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BEGINNING OF THE ANTISLAVERY AGITATION

[Sidenote: Antislavery sentiments of the Virginians.]

[Sidenote: Slavery in the far South.]

[Sidenote: _Source-book_, 244-248, 251-260.]