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Hamilton News Press, May 16,
1895
OUR HISTORY CLASS
Matter intended for this Department should be
addressed to W. F. GREEN, Pikeville, Ala.
The object of this department is to encourage and stimulate
historical research and to promote a healthy national spirit. Questions will be asked and
suggestions made that, it is hoped, will enable one to obtain a
clear view and comprehensive understanding of American history, to
which we will confine ourselves for the present. Teachers, and others who
feel interested, are invited to make suggestions and propound
questions for investigation.
Those who send questions should also send therewith correct
answer, whenever practicable, to be published later, as my library
is very limited. Thos e
sending answers should give the number of the question, as all
reference to questions after their first publication will be by
number.
Hoping that this department will prove of interest and
benefit to the readers of the News-Press, and inviting their
co-operation in making it so, I am, very
truly,
W. F. GREEN
- Where and by whom was the first European settlement
made on the American continent?
- What influence caused England to stand aloof so long
while Spain was acquiring territorial possession and assuming
dominion over the new world?
- Why was the name America applied to his
continent?
- Where was Columbus
buried?
- During the revolutionary war, the colonists, while
warring with Great
Britain, invaded Canada. Prior to the revolutionary
war, when fighting for Great
Britain, they invaded Canada. Why this apparent
inconsistency?
- Nest to Washington, whom do you consider the most
effective worker for American
Independence?
- Why did the puritans come to America?
- Explain what is meant by Mason and Dixon’s
line.
- Define the Monroe
Doctrine
- Name our most eminent literary, political and
scientific writer.
Answers to these questions will appear in the issue
two weeks hence. I
would suggest that those who take an interest in this department
should keep a complete file of the paper, as differences of opinion
will likely occur and references to back numbers may be necessary to
an intelligent understanding of the question
involved.
Hamilton News
Press, May 30, 1895
ANWERS
Following are answers to questions which appeared in
this Department on May 16, Nos. 1, 3, 6, and 8 were furnished by Mr.
IRA HUGHES, Pikeville, Ala:
1.
At Darien, by the
Spaniards
2.
Soon after the discovery of America, the pope issued a bull by
which he gave to Spain all the land which had been or
might be discovered beyond an imaginary line 300 miles west of the
Azores. Henry VII, who was then king
of England, being a devout
Catholic, respected the papal
authority.
3.
A man named Amerigo Vespucci visited the mainland and wrote a
book describing it. The
printer, in giving a title to the book, called the country
America.
4.
At Seville. The remains were afterward
removed to San Domingo, and in 1796 to the cathedral at Havana.
5.
Canada was a British
province during the revolutionary war. It was a French province
when the colonists invaded it on behalf of Great
Britain. It was the American
colonists who conquered Canada and made it a part of the
British
Empire.
6.
Franklin
7.
They were persecuted in the European
countries.
8.
The boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland was
the source of much dispute.
It was finally settled in 1767, when two surveyors, named
Mason and Dixon fixed the present
boundary, which has since been known as Mason and Dixon
line.
9.
In one of President Monroe’s messages to Congress he declared
that any attempt by a European nation to gain dominion in
America, would be
construed by the United States an
unfriendly act.” [There
has lately been a good deal of loose talk about the Monroe Doctrine,
in the newspapers and by politicians, and it is a pertinent subject
for inquiry and study]
10.
Benjamin Franklin
Hamilton News Press, May 23,
1895
OUR HISTORY CLASS
Matter intended for this department should be
addressed to W. F. GREEN, Pikeville, Ala.
The object of this department is to encourage and stimulate
historical research and to promote a healthy national spirit. Questions will be asked and
suggestions made that, it is hoped, will enable one to obtain a
clear view and comprehensive understanding of American history, to
which we will confine ourselves for the present. Teachers, and others who
feel interested, are invited to make suggestions and propound
questions for investigation.
Those who send questions should also send therewith correct
answer, whenever practicable, to be published later, as my library
is very limited. Thos e
sending answers should give the number of the question, as all
reference to questions after their first publication will be by
number.
Hoping that this department will prove of interest and
benefit to the readers of the News-Press, and inviting their
co-operation in making it so, I am, very
truly,
W. F. GREEN
- Who wrote the Declaration of
Independence?
- By whom was the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty
presented to the United States, and
where is it located?
- Who was selected by Congress to deliver Washington’s funeral
oration?
- Who first explored the territory now comprised
within the State of Alabama?
- Who was the author of the saying, “Millions for
defense, but not a cent for
tribute?”
- What was the “Missouri
Compromise?”
- By whom was the declaration made that he “Had rather
be right than president?”
- Who framed the United States
Constitution?
- After whom was Marion county
named?
- When was Alabama
admitted into the Union?
Hamilton News
Press, June 6, 1895
ANSWERS
The following answers are to questions which appeared
in issue of May 23.
Nos. 11, 14, 15, 19 and 20 were furnished by Mr. IRA HUGHES
Pikeville, Ala:
11.
Thomas Jefferson.
The following composed the committee that reported the
Declaration to Congress: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin
Franklin, Roger Sherman and H. R.
Livingston.
12. The
Bertholdi Statue of Liberty was
presented to the United
States by the people of France to commemorate the
friendly relations of the two countries during the revolutionary
war. It is located on
Bedloe’s Island, in New York
Bay.
13.
Richard Henry Lee
14.
Ferdinand DeSoto
15.
Charles Cotesworth
Pinckney
16. The
Missouri Compromise was an agreement between the then dominant
political parties represented in the United States Congress that
Missouri might come into the union as a slave state, but that
slavery should be prohibited in all other territory belonging to the
United States west of the Mississippi and north of parallel 35 deg.
30 min. the southern boundary of the state. The measure was proposed by
Henry Clay, and adopted to avert a war which the bitter feelings
engendered by the discussion of the slavery question seemed about to
precipitate.
17. Henry
Clay
18.
Gonverneur Morris
19.
General Francis Marion
20.
1819
Hamilton News
Press, May 30, 1895
OUR HISTORY CLASS
Matter intended for this department should be
addressed to W. F. GREEN, Pikeville, Ala.
21. What kind of tree was it under which William
Penn’s famous treaty with the Indians was
negotiated?
The following nine questions were propounded by Hon.
W. A. DUNN, county superintendent of
Education:
22. When and where was a convention held in a barn,
and the Bible adopted as a
constitution?
23. Whom did Christopher Columbus
marry?
24. Where is the famous Stone
Mountain?
25. What fishes build
nests?
26. The waters of what river can be detected three
hundred miles out at sea?
27. Where was Captain John Smith’s life saved by
Pocahontas?
28. Who were the “American Daughters of
Liberty?”
29. What was the pine tree
money?
30. By whom taught, when and where was the first
school on Alabama
soil?
(Hamilton News Press, June
13,
1895)
ANSWERS
21. An
elm.
22. At
Juinipiac, Conn. April 13, 1638 by the settlers, who
afterwards laid the foundation of a city and called it New
Haven.
23. While
at Lisbon, in 1484, Columbus was
accustomed to attend religious service at the Chapel of the Convent
of All Saints. In this convent were certain ladies of rank, either
resident as boarders, or in some religious capacity. With one of these Columbus
became acquainted. She
was Dona Felipi, daughter of Bartolomeo Morris de Berestrello, an
Italian cavalier, lately deceased, who had been one of the most
distinguished navigators under Prince Henry, and had colonized and
governed the Island of Porto
Santo. The acquaintance soon ripened
into attachment, and ended in marriage. It appears to have been a
match of mere affection, as the lady was destitute of fortune. There were two sons born,
Diego and Fernando.
24. In
DeKlab County,
Ga. It is a huge mass
of granite rising almost perpendicular several hundred feet above
the surrounding country.
25. The
Sticklebacks. The
species of stickleback are all natives of fresh water with one or
two exceptions. They
are found in the Ottawa River, while the marine species have lately
been discovered among the weed of the Saragasso
Sea.
26. The Amazon, which is so charged with sediment that
its waters can readily be detected by their discoloration this
distance from its mouth.
27. In
Gloucester County, Va. at a place called Mironocomcoco, or
Werowacomoco. It is
situated near Mobjack
Bay, which is an inlet near
the mouth of York
River.
28. A
society formed in Philadelphia on June 13, 1780, for
the purpose of supplying the soldiers with clothing. The city was divided into
ten districts, and four appointed to each district to solicit
subscriptions. Their
donations amounted to two thousand and thirty shirts and they
obtained seventy-seven shirts and three hundred and eighty pairs of
socks from New
Jersey.
29. At
the first mint for coining silver money established in Massachusetts, the three-pence,
sixpence, and shilling sterling, had stamped upon one side of them
the effigy of a pine-tree; hence these pieces were called pine-tree
money.
30. The
first American school established in Alabama territory, was taught by John Pierce,
on Tensas Bay, above Mobile, in 1790. Pierce was a New Englander,
and his pupils were a motley lot, including a number of half-breed
Indians, among whom, however, were the Weatherfords, McGilloways,
and others noted in the days when Alabama was a bloody border
land.
Except No. 21, the above answers were furnished by
Hon. W. A. DUNN, county Superintendent of Public
Education. Correct
answers to Nos. 21 and 23 were also furnished by Mr. IRA HUGHES,
Pikeville,
Ala.
Hamilton News Press, June 6,
1895
OUR HISTORY CLASS
Matter intended for this department should be
addressed to W. F. GREEN, Pikeville, Ala.
The following questions were used in the teacher’s
examinations in this county last
year:
31. Why
was America so
named?
32.
Describe the character of the first colonists at Jamestown, Va.
33.
Describe the travels of DeSoto in America.
34. When
did the puritans come to America? Why did they
come?
35. Tell
of Captain John Smith.
36. Where
did the Spaniards, English, Dutch, and French each
settle?
37. What
caused the war of Revolution?
38. When
and where was the first President of the U.
S.
inaugurated?
39. Tell
about the Salem
Witchcraft
40. Where
and by whom was Alabama
settled?
Hamilton News Press, June
27, 1895)
ANSWERS
31. This
question was answered in issued of May
30.
32. The
character of the first Jamestown colonists was of the
worst possible sort of the great undertaking of planting a
settlement in a wilderness.
Many of them were gentlemen, unaccustomed to any kind of work
and they did not take kindly to the hardships and deprivations which
were inevitable. There were a few mechanics, and the remainder of
the colonists were lazy and
shiftless.
33. In
the early summer of 1539, DeSoto landed in the neighborhood of
Tampa Bay, on the Florida
coast. He followed the
coast northward, and settled for the winter near the site of
Tallahassee, from whence he sent
out several exploring expeditions. The following spring, he
explored the country as far north as South Carolina, in avian search
for gold. Disappointed
in this direction, he turned his course westward, passing through
the upper part of Georgia and Alabama, and at last wandered down the valleys
of the Coosa and Alabama rivers to
where the city of Mobile now stands, but which was
then an Indian village.
Here a desperate battle was fought with the Indians, in which
2500 of the latter were killed, the Spaniards losing eighteen men,
besides their baggage and a number of horses. They then turned their
course to the northwest, spending the winter in northern Mississippi,
where they had other collisions with the Indians. In the spring of 1541, they
discovered the Mississippi river, which they crossed and continued
their journey as far north of the present State of Missouri. They turned southward and
wintered near Hot Springs, Ark. and in the spring of 1542, they followed
the valley of the Washita and Red Rivers to the Mississippi
in which noble stream found a grave, having succumbed to a
fever.
34. In
1620, because they were persecuted in European
countries.
35. Capt.
John Smith was a man of great ability, who figures extensively in
early colonial history.
36. The Spaniards settled in Florida; the English in Virginia and Massachusetts; the Dutch in New York; and the French in
Canada and the
Mississippi Valley.
37. The persistence of the British government in
refusing to the colonists the rights of
Englishmen.
38.
George Washington, First President of the United States, was inaugurated in the
city of New
York on Thursday Aril 30,
1789
39. A
delusion that seized upon the minds of the people of Salem, Mass. in 1692, which resulted in
the establishment of a special court for the trial of people charged
with witchcraft. From
June to September this tribunal was active twenty persons being
committed and executed, thirteen of them
women.
40. The
first settlement of Europeans in the territory now comprised within
the state of Alabama, was in 1702
by the French, under the command of Le Moyne de Bidenville, who
built the fort
St. Louis de la Mobile, at or near the spot now known as
Twenty-one Mile Bluff, on Mobile River.
Correct answers to Nos. 31, 34, and 38 were furnished
by Mr. IRA HGURES, Pikeville, Ala.
(Hamilton News Press, June 13,
1895)
OUR HISTORY CLASS
Matter intended for this department should be
addressed to W. F. GREEN, Pikeville, Ala.
41. Who
were the first United
States Senators from Alabama?
42. Who
was the first member from Alabama of the United States
Supreme Court?
43. Who
was the first Governor of the State of Alabama?
44. Who
was the first President of the United States
Senate?
45. By what officer was the official oath administered
to George Washington as the first President of the
United
States?
46. Who
was President of the United States one hundred
years ago?
47. What
four European nations laid claim to the Territories which ultimately
became the United
States?
48. By
whom and to whom was the following message sent: “We have met the
enemy and they are ours?
49. Who
was the author of the saying: “Be sure you’re right, then go
ahead.”
50. Who
was the author of the saying: “I am not worth purchasing, but such
as I am the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy
me?”
Hamilton News Press, July 4,
1895
ANSWERS
41. The
first United
States Senators from Alabama were
William R. King and John W.
Walker.
42. John
McKinley was the first member from Alabama of the United States
Supreme Court. He was
appointed April 22, 1837.
43.
William B. Bibb
44. John
Langdon was the first President of the United States Senate, having
been chosen for the sole purpose of counting the votes and declaring
the result of the first Residential
election.
45. The
oath of office as first President of the United States was administered by the
Chancellor of the State of New
York.
46.
George Washington
47.
England,
Spain,
France and
Holland.
48. After
the fight of Lake Erie, Capt. Perry
announced the result to Gen. William Henry Harrison, his superior
officer.
49. David
Crockett, a most unique figure in American history, was, though a
very illiterate man, the author of may wise sayings beside the one
quoted. He was killed
at the Alamo massacre in the war for Texas
independence.
50. An
attempt was made by British agents during the revolutionary war to
bribe Gen. Joseph Reed, of Philadelphia, to desert the cause
of his country, and the quotation was the honest old solder’s
reply.
(Hamilton News Press, June 27,
1895)
OUR HISTORY
CLASS
Matter intended for this department should be
addressed to W. F. GREEN, Pikeville, Ala.
The following questions are from Hon. W. A. DUNN,
County
Superintendent
of Education
51. Where
and when did the first General Assembly of Alabama
convene?
52. When
did the General assembly of Alabama
pass an act establishing the State University?
53. Who
was the Bachelor President of the United
States?
54. What
was known as the Walking
Purchase?
55. When
did the United
States first coin
money?
56. What
money was used by the United States before it
struck its own coin?
57. Who
was Poor Richard, and why so
called?
58. Of
whom and by whom was it said: “He smote the Rock of National
resources and abundant streams of Revenue gushed
forth?”
59. Who
said and when, “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual
means of preserving peace?”
60. What
battle in the civil war is known as “The battle above the
clouds?”
Hamilton News Press, July 11,
1895
ANSWERS
Prof. W. A. DUNN, County Superintendent of Education,
furnished the following answers:
51. The
first General Assembly of Alabama convened at Huntsville in
October 1819.
52. At
the second session of the General Assembly of Alabama an act was
passed establishing the University of Alabama. The act was passed Dec. 18,
1820.
53. James
Buchanan was called the “Bachelor
President.”
54. Land deeded by the Indians to the
successors of Pepp granting as much as a man could walk over in a
certain direction in a day and a half was known as the “Walking
Purchase.” An undue
advantage was taken of the Indians by laying out a road and training
men to walk.
55. In
1792 in Philadelphia the first
United
States money was
coined.
56.
Spanish and English coins were used in the
United States
before striking U. S.
coin.
57. For a
number of years Benjamin Franklin published “Poor Richard’s Almanac,
and from that fact he was known as poor
Richard”
58.
Daniel Webster said, “Alexander Hamilton smote the rock of
National resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed
forth.”
59.
George Washington said, “To be prepared for war, is one of
the most efficient means of preserving
peace.”
60. The
capture of Lookout Mountain by Gen. Joseph
Hooker, is known as the “Battle Above the
Clouds.”
Hamilton News Press, July 4,
1895
OUR HISTORY CLASS
Matter intended for this Department should be
addressed to W. F. GREEN, Pikeville, Ala.
The following questions are from Mr. L. C. BOTTOMS,
Knowles,
Ala:
61. Who
were the Puritans and whey were they so called? When did they come to
America?
62. Give
a short sketch of Roger Williams’ work toward the Haley
Worship.
63. How
did the Puritans go to Church?
Why?
64. When
and where was the first continental Congress
held?
65. What
was the “Boston Massacre?
66. What
was known as the “Starving
Time?”
67. Who
were the “Minute Men?”
68. By
whom and when was the Proclamation of Emancipation issued, and when
did tit take effect?
69. What
President learned the English alphabet after he was 18 years
old?
70. Where
was the capital of the Confederacy of America? Who was
President?
Hamilton News Press, July 18,
1895
ANSWERS
(The following answers were furnished by MR. L. C.
BOTTOMS, of Knowles, Ala.)
61. The
Puritans, or Pilgrims who separated themselves from the Church of
England, were people who chose to worship God and according to the
established laws of England. They were so called because
they did not leave the Church, but sought to purify
it.
62. Roger
Williams, a minister at Salem, Mass. was banished from the colony
on account of his peculiar views on several political and religious
subjects. He went to
the head of Narragansett Bay and
established a settlement on the principal of entire religious
liberty.
63. The
Puritans carried their guns to Church as regular as their Bibles, on
account of the outrageous Indians who sought to kill
them.
64. The
first “Continental Congress” was held in Philadelphia
in 1774.
65.
Troops were quartered on the colonies at the expense of the
people. This the people
did not like. The
people arose against the troops and three people were killed. This was known as the
“Boston Massacre.”
66. After
Captain John Smith went back to England, nearly five hundred people
were in Virginia. The settlers soon got into
trouble with the Indians, who lay in the woods to kill them. There was no chance for corn
or food now. The people
ate hogs, dogs, horses, mice, rats, etc. They also ate the dead
bodies of their companions who strolled into the woods and
died.
67. The
“Minute Men” were men formed into companies by the Americans, who
were ready to fight at a minutes’
warning.
68. The
Proclamation of Emancipation was issued by Abraham Lincoln, Jan
1st, 1863.
It gave freedom to the negroes forever
after.
69.
Andrew Johnson learned his English alphabet after 18 years of
age.
70.
Montgomery, Ala. was, for awhile, the capital of the
confederacy of America. Richmond, Va. was the capitol at the close
of the war. Jefferson
Davis was President.
Hamilton News Press, July
11, 1895
OUR HISTORY CLASS
Matter intended for this Department should be
addressed to W. F. GREEN, Abaline, Ala.
71. When
did the first trouble arise in reference to
slavery?
72. What
was used instead of money by the
colonists?
73. When
was the printing press introduced into America?
74. When
was the Constitution of they United
States
adopted?
75. What
two political parties came into existence at this
time?
76. What
three presidents have died on the 4th of
July?
77. Who
were the first inhabitants of America?
78. Who
was spoken of as “First in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his countrymen,” and who first used the
expression?
79. Who
was called the “Father of New
France?”
80. When
were the stars and stripes adopted as the emblem of our
nationality?
Hamilton News Press, August 1,
1895
ANSWERS
71. The
first slavery troubles arose in the convention that adopted the
Constitution of the United States. Violent disputes arose
between the representatives of the two sections concerning the ratio
of representation, the northern members claiming that hey ought not
to be counted and ht southern insisting that they should. A
compromise was finally effected by which five slaves were counted as
equal to three white men.
This political power was ex—sed by the owners, however, and
not by the slaves, thus giving the white men of the south much
greater power than an equal number of northern
men.
72. In
Virginia, for a long time, tobacco
was used as money; in New England, Wampum, made of shells; in
New
York, beaver
skins.
73. The
printing press was introduced in America in the year
1639. An English
printer named Stephen day set up, at Cambridge, the first printing
press. The first newspaper appeared in 1704, and was called the
“Boston News Letter.”
74. The
United States
Constitution was adopted September 17th, 1787 by a
convention at Philadelphia, which was called to
revise the articles of Confederation, which had been found fatally
defective.
75. The
two political parties that came into existence at this time were the
Federalist, who favored the new Constitution and advocated a
centralized government; and the Republicans, who advocated the
doctrine of State sovereignty and opposed a central government with
such power as the new Constitution conferred. The leaders of the Federal
party were Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay. Thomas Jefferson was the
head of the Republican party.
76.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died July 4, 1826; James
Monroe died July 4, 1831.
77. The
name “Mound Builders” is applied to the first inhabitants of
America, because of the
great mounds and earthworks to be found in different parts of the
country of which they are the supposed
builders.
78. Gen.
Henry Lee, of Virginia, who was
selected by Congress to deliver Washington’s funeral oration,
referred to the dead soldier statesman as “First in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his countrymen.”
79.
Champlain was called the “Father of New France,” because it
was by his heroic exertions that the French colonies were
established in America.
80. The
“Stars and Stripes” were adopted as the emblem of our Nationality
June 14, 1777. The
thirteen stripes, seven red an six white, alternating, represent the
thirteen original states, and in a blue field in the upper left hand
corner is placed a star for each state included in the Federal
Union.
Hamilton News Press, July 18,
1895
OUR HISTORY CLASS
Matter intended for this Department should be
addressed to W. F. GREEN, Abaline, Ala.
81. When
and where was the first legislative assembly ever held in
America?
82. When
and by whom was negro slavery introduced into the
colonies?
83. To
whom belongs the honor of having first established religious
freedom?
84. What
Alabamian has been elected Vice President of the United
States?
85. Who
was President of the United States when George
Washington died?
86. Who
was Governor of Alabama during the civil
war?
87. Who
was the Reconstruction Governor of Alabama?
88. Why
do Americans celebrate the 4th of
July?
89. Why
do we celebrate February 22?
90. Who
was “Old Rough and Ready?”
Hamilton News Press, August 1,
1895
81. The
first representative legislative assembly ever held in
America was at
Jamestown in
1619.
82. In
1620 a Dutch vessel bro’t negro slaves to Virginia and
sold them to the colonists.
This was the beginning of negro slavery in America.
83. The
Roman Catholics of Maryland are entitled to the honor
of having first established religious freedom in
American.
84. Wm.
R. King, of Alabama, was elected
Vice-President in 1852, on the ticket with Franklin
Pierce.
85. John
Adams was President of the United States when George
Washington died.
86.
Thomas H. Watts was Governor of Alabama during the civil
war. He died about a
year ago in Montgomery.
87. Lewis
E. Parsons sr. was the reconstruction Governor of Alabama. He lives in Talladega.
88. The
4th of July is celebrated by Americans because of the
Declaration of Independence having been promulgated on that
day.
89.
George Washington was born on February
22.
90. Gen.
Zachariah Taylor was called “Old Rough and
Ready.”
Hamilton News Press, July 25,
1895
OUR HISTORY CLASS
Matter intended for this Department should be
addressed to W. F. GREEN, Abaline, Ala.
91. Who
is known in American history as the “Great
Pacificator?”
92. Who
used the expression, “You can fool all the people part of the time,
and part of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the
people all the time.”
93. Was Gen. Jackson
going toward New Orleans, or coming
from there, when he opened the military road that runs by Hamilton?
94. Who was the Mexican General at the Battle of Buena
Vista? The American
General?
95. Who
is known as the “Father of the
Constitution?”
96. Who
was the “Hero of Tippecanoe?”
97. Who
was Governor of Alabama during the war of
Secession?
98. Who were the Commanding Generals, respectively, of
the Union and Confederate forces at
the close of the war?
99. What
is an alien?
100. What is a foreigner?
NO MORE ANSWERS APPEARED IN THE
COLUMNS OF THE NEWSPAPERS
Hamilton News Press, August 1,
1895
OUR HISTORY CLASS
Matter intended for this department should be
addressed to W. F. GREEN, Abaline, Ala.
101. What
was the Kansas-Nebraska Bill?
102. What
was the “Gadsden
purchase?”
103. Who
was Daniel Boone?
104. What
political party had for its motto: “The Union, The Constitution, and the Enforcement
of the Laws?”
105. What
nation contested with the French for the territory about the mouth
of the Mississippi River? What nation disputed their
right to the headwaters of that
river?
106. By
what treaty did France relinquish its claim to the
entire Mississippi Valley?
107. Name
a college which existed in colonial times in (1) New England, (2) the Middle Colonies, (3) the
Southern Colonies.
108. What
was meant by the political cry: “Fifty-four forty or
fight?”
109. Who
was the conqueror of Mexico?
110. Who
was the “Mill Boy of the Slashes?”
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