Again the tariff was the chief question of the campaign of 1892, and it resulted in the election of Grover Cleveland, president, and Adlai Stevenson, vice-president.

SETTLEMENT AND ADMISSION OF STATES.

QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION.

CHAPTER I.

1.—Where did the Northmen live, and what was their character?

2.-Describe the discoveries of Iceland and Green

land.

3. Who discovered the American continent in the ninth century, and what name did he give it? 4.-What places on the coast were explored by the Northmen ?

5. What was the effect of these discoveries?

CHAPTER II.

1. How many years passed away from the discoveries of the Northmen to the great discovery of Columbus?

2.-What led Columbus to think that he could reach the East Indies by sailing westward?

3.-Give a brief account of Columbus's life prior to his discovery of America.

4.-To what monarchs did he apply for assistance?

5. What sovereigns finally furnished him an outfit? 6.-Name the three vessels with which he sailed on his perilous voyage.

7. When and where did he discover the first land?

8.-How many voyages did Columbus make to the New World?

9.-What rank was conferred upon him by the Spanish sovereigns?

10. What treatment did he receive from his country?

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CHAPTER III.

1. After whom was the New World called Amer

ica?

2.-Describe the voyages of John Cabot and his son Sebastian.

3. Why were these voyages important to the English?

4.-Describe the romantic voyage of Ponce de

Leon.

5. Who discovered the Pacific Ocean? In what year?

6. Who was the first navigator whose ships sailed around the world?

7.-What important group of islands, still in the possession of Spain, was discovered by this navigator? 8. In what year and under what flag did Verazzani sail ?

9.—Give a brief account of the voyages of Cartier. 10. Why were the voyages of Verazzani and Cartier important to France?

11.-Describe the voyage and wanderings of De

Soto.

12. What important discovery did he make?

CHAPTER IV.-PART I.

1.-Describe the efforts of the English to discover the North-west passage to India.

2. What unsuccessful attempts were made to plant an English colony in North America?

3. What navigators sailed under the patronage of Sir Walter Raleigh?

4.-Who gave Virginia its name?

5. Where was the first permanent English settlement established? In what year ?

6. Who was the first governor, and who was the leading man?

7.-What was the character of the first settlers in Virginia?

8. With what difficulties did they have to contend?

9.—In what year and by whom was negro slavery introduced?

10. What was the cause of Bacon's rebellion? Give a brief account of it.

11. In what years and by whom were North and South Carolina settled?

CHAPTER IV.-PART II.

1. In what year and by what people was Massachusetts founded?

2. How did they obtain their peculiar name?
3.-Describe the troubles of the first settlers.
4.-Who was the first governor ?

5. When and by whom was Rhode Island settled?

6.-In what year was Connecticut settled? By

whom?

7.—When and by whom was New Hampshire settled?

CHAPTER V.-PART I.

1. When and by whom was the Hudson River discovered?

2. When was New York first settled? By what name was it known?

3. What name was given to the country on both sides of the Hudson?

4.—In what year did New York and New Jersey fall into the hands of the English?

5. In what year was New Jersey first settled? 6. In what year and by whom was Delaware set. tled?

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CHAPTER V.-PART II.

1. By whom was Maryland settled? In what year?

2.-Who was the first governor?

3.—Where in the American Colonies was religious liberty first really established?

4.—When and by whom was Pennsylvania settled? / 682 5. In what year was Philadelphia founded? 6.-In what year, and by whom, was Georgia settled?

CHAPTER VI.

I. -What was the first war of the English against the Indians?

2.- Give the cause and date.

3. What was the cause and what the date of King Philip's War?

4. Give a short account of the war.

5.-What was the cause of King William's War? 6.-With whom did the Indians ally themselves? 7.-How long did this war last, and what treaty ended it?

8. What was the cause of Queen Anne's War? When did it end, and what treaty terminated it? 9.-State the principal events of this war.

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10. When did King George's War begin, how long did it last, and what treaty ended it?

II. State the cause of this war, and its principal

events.

CHAPTER VII.

1.-In what respect did the French and Indian War differ in its origin from the preceding war?

2. What distinguished man first made his appearance in public life during this war?