HISTORY
What two brilliant orators have been defeated three times for the
presidency? 280, 407.
What are the words of the Monroe doctrine? 1253. Who were the National Republicans? 2075. When did the Democrats and Republicans form one political party?
623. What sarcastic name was given to thte Compromise Bill of 1850?
1382, 438.
What was the Missouri compromise? 1242, 407. What was intended by the Wilmot proviso? 546. What did "squatter sovereignty" mean? 1981, 546. Who was the author of the Nullification Act that Jackson called
treason? 308, 1785, 852. How did Texas avenge the death of David Crockett and his heroic
comrades, 479, 36, 1673.
What was the first great blow delivered to states' rights? 2063, 836. What laws protected the kidnapers of free negroes and forced these
again into slavery? 722. What was the Gadsden purchase? 728, 100. What territory was discovered by an Italian friar and an African
slave? 100.
What Indians live in immense apartment-houses five stories high? 1559. Are the cliff-dwellers the same as cave-men? 100, 353. What is the Urim and Thummim of the Mormons? 1263, 1992. What conflict did the Mormons have with the Federal government?
1995.
Who invented the Macintosh coat? 1640. Name six remarkable inventions that appeared between 1830 and
1850? 1981. Who were the Underground Railroad "conductors" for fugitive slaves?
1966.
What was the memorable Dred-Scott case? 1869. What chief justice decided that slaves wlere not "persons" but
"property"? 1982.
What state declared that it might annul the laws of Congress? 1785. What colony first raised a military force to oppose English government? 1785.
What state was the leading exponent of states' rights? 1785. What state was th'e first to secede before the Civil War? 441. How has the state been saved from the ignorant negro voters? 1785. How were the Confederate troops outnumbered in the Civil War? 1982. How many men were killed in the draft-riots in New York city? 548. What general was dismissed from the army after the Battle of Bull
Run? 1531, 288.
What great battle decided the Civil War? 762. After what desperate battle did Grant write his famous message: "I
will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer"? 1804. What six books did Lincoln own when he was 21? 1073. How did some fence rails he split help to win him the presidency?
1073. Bid the Federal government intend to assail the Confederate states
when they seceded? 1074.
What Confederate was one of the greatest soldiers America has produced? 1046.
Did Robert E. Lee know the Union must triumph? 1047. How did Grant save Lee from being tried for treason? 794, What is the Fifteenth Amendment? 1595. Who were those low-principled northerners known as carpet-baggers?
340.
What was the dreaded Ku-Klux Klan? 1013. Why did the government issue greenbacks? 1792. Who introduced Mardi Gras in this country? 1169.
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