divide on the repeal of the Sherman Act? Explain this "split." & State the nature and purpose of the Wilson Bill.

(529-530.) 1. Why did President Cleveland refuse to annex Hawaii? 2. Explain how the dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain threatened to violate the Monroe Doctrine. 3. What is meant by settling disputes by arbitration? What other examples of arbitration? 4. What was the main question in the campaign of 1896? 5. How did the parties split on this question? 6. What signs of split before 1896? 7. Compare the Dingley Law with the McKinley and Wilson laws.

Histories: Wilson's Division and Reunion. Andrews' Last Quarter of a Century.

(531-534.) 7. Make a list of the effects of the discovery of gold and silver in the West. 2. What means of communication with the Pacific before a Pacific railroad was built? 3. In what period of our history were these the only means of rapid communication? 4. Make a list of the effects of a Pacific railroad. 5. What effect did the Homestead Law have in common with the discovery of gold and silver and the building of railroads? 6. Make a list of the results of the second discovery of gold and silver in the West.

(535-539.) 1. Describe the steps in making a town. 2. Give the points of difference between a large prairie farm in Dakota and the ordinary farm in the older states. 3. Name the steps in the growth of the milling industry. 4. How have the great wheat farms and flouring mills affected the farmers to the eastward? 5. Ask your grandfather about the old-time grist and saw mills. 6. Where did George Washington get his beef? Where do you get yours? 7. Prove that the old ways of farming, milling, meat-raising, and mining were or were not better than the new.

(540-542.) 7. Explain the causes of the Modoc and Sioux wars. 2. What difference in the Indian way of fighting Custer and of fighting Harrison at Tippecanoe, and what does it mean? 3. What is the meaning of the rush of population into Indian reservations? 4. What will it mean when all the valuable "government land" is taken up?

(543-550.) 1. Explain why free labor produces more farm products for the South than slave labor did.

a list of occupations prominent in the South since 1860. 3. What have been their effects upon the South? What do you infer will be their effect upon the North? 4. Make a list of the mining and manufacturing centers of the whole country.

5. What do you infer from the fact that South Carolina will probably have, in a few years, as many cotton factories as Massachusetts? 6. Why were many railroads built in the South after 1865? Make a list of their effects. 7. In what points did Texas profit from the new Northwest and the new South? 8. How did the war make it hard for the South to educate her children? 9. Who aided in the education of the South? 10. What useful effects did the Southern Expositions have on the South? On the North?

(551-554.) 1. If you know persons now living who were born before steam was widely used, ask them to tell you what was used in its place. 2. Tell the differences between one of Columbus' vessels and a modern steamship. 3. Between the first American railroad train and a train of Pullman cars. 4. Make a list of the things in which electricity is taking the place of steam. 5. Make a list of the different ways of lighting buildings, beginning with colonial times. 6. Make a list of inventions which your grandfather knew nothing about when he was a boy. Ask him how they got on without them. 7. Ask your grandmother to tell you the difference between housekeeping now and when she was a girl.

(555-560.) 1. What things were necessary before "trusts could be formed? 2. Resolved, That large business companies are or are not beneficial to a nation. 3. What things were necessary before national labor organizations could be formed? 4. Resolved, That labor organizations are or are not beneficial to a nation. 5. What is a "strike"? Discuss its purposes. 6. In what ways are strikes settled?

(561-564.) 1. How do inventions and labor disputes help to make people wiser? 2. What was the use of celebrating the centennial of Revolutionary events? 3. What have been the two greatest centennial exhibitions in the United States? State the purpose of each. 4. State purpose of the fairs held at Omaha, Buffalo, and Atlanta? 5. What kinds of schools of higher learning grew up in this period? 6. Learn what you can about Horace Mann. 7. Who besides the states have established colleges and universities, and what does it mean? 8. What means are now used to encourage people to study after school days? 9. Find out the difference between newspapers now and one hundred years ago.

(565-572.) 1. Why did Americans dislike Spanish ways? 2. To what race did the Cubans belong? 3. Make list of

Histories: Wilson's Division and Reunion. Andrews' Last Quarter.

causes for Cuban wars against Spanish authority. 4. Which was the great cause of the Spanish-American War? 5. Why did news of Dewey's victory excite European nations? 6. Discuss its claim as being the most important event of the war. 7. Ask some soldier who fought in Cuba to tell you of his experiences. 8. Describe the destruction of Cervera's fleet. 9. Why were some Americans opposed to the treaty with Spain? 1o. Discuss the right of the United States to govern the Philippines. 11. How does the government of colonies add to our national expenses? 12. How may colonies help repay the cost of government? 13. Why did foreigners generally sympathize with Spain?

(573-603-) 1. To what race do the Filipinos belong? 2. What was the cause of the insurrection? 3. Why did not our government grant their demand for independence? 4. What form of government has been established in the islands? 5. Describe the Boxer uprising in China. 6. What were the principal issues in the campaign of 1900? 7. Name our three martyr Presidents. 8. What motives led to their assassination? 9. What was the significance of the withdrawal of United States authority from Cuba? 10. What are the relations between the United States and the Philippines and Porto Rico? II. Describe the negotiations for the control of the Panama Canal. 12. What benefits will the United States derive from such a canal? Other nations? 13. What was the decision in the Alaskan boundary dispute? 14. Make a list of great expositions held in the United States, giving time, place, and purpose of each. 15. Read the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (§301). 16. What number is Oklahoma among the states of the Nation? 17. In what respect did the Jamestown Exposition differ from all others? 18. What is the purpose of the United States in dealing with our Insular Possessions? 19. What can you tell of the peace conferences at The Hague? 20. Describe some effects of the reckless use of a country's natural resources. 21. Go with the fleet around the world and tell some of your experiences. 22. Describe the inventions for the conquest of the air. 23. Distinguish between the recent North and South Polar Explorations. 24. Discuss the admittance into the Union of Arizona and New Mexico. 25. State leading facts in the campaign of 1912. 26. Discuss the special session of Congress; the important political events of 1913; new political methods; relations with Mexico; business conditions in 1914; Federal Reserve banks; first effects of the European War; neutrality.

THE "MAYFLOWER" COMPACT

In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are writen, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James, by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc, & Ireland, king, defender of ye faith, &c., haveing undertaken, for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith, and honour of our king & countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another, covenant & combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid: and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, actes, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall good of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witnes wherof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape-Cod ye II. of November, in the year of ye raigne of our soveraigne lord, King James, of England, France & Ireland ye 18, and of Scotland ye fiftiefourth. Ano. Ďom. 1620.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE'

In Congress, July 4, 1776. The following declaration of principles was agreed to on July 4, 1776, and is thus recorded in the Journal of Congress for that day:

Agreeably to the order of the day, the Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole to take into their further consideration the Declaration; and, after some time, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. Harrison reported that the committee have agreed to a Declaration, which they desired him to report. The Declaration being read, was agreed to as follows:

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their

1The use of capitals, the punctuation, the paragraphing, and the numbering of paragraphs are all modern. In the original draft the use of capitals and punctua tion marks was quite different and there was no division into paragraphs.

safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object. evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. 1. He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

2. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

3. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature—a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only.

4. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. 5. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people.

6. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without and convulsions within.

7. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

8. He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

9. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries.

10. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

11. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.

12. He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.

13. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation :

a. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.

b. For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states.