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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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