LESSON XXXV.

The southern states.

Q. What is the Climate of the Southern States?

A. Warm.

Q. What do the Planters of the Southern States own?

A. Large plantations cultivated by slaves.

Q. What are raised on these plantations?

A. Sugar, Tobacco, and Cotton.

[Illustration:  Catching Wild Horses with the Lasso.]

Q. From what State does most of the Sugar come?

A. Louisiana.

Q. What Presidents were born in Virginia?

A. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Harrison, and Taylor.

Q. How are wild horses caught?

A. By means of a leather rope called a Lasso.

[Illustration:  Map of the western states.]

LESSON XXXVI.

Q. How many Western States are there?

A. Eleven.

Q. What two are furthest north?

A. Michigan and Wisconsin.

Q. What three lie on the west side of the Mississippi River?

A. Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas.

Q. What three lie on the north side of the Ohio River?

A. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois.

Q. What two south of the Ohio?

A. Kentucky and Tennessee.

Q. What Lake north of Michigan?

A. Lake Superior.

Q. What Lake east of Michigan?

A. Lake Huron.

Q. What Lake west of Michigan?

A. Lake Michigan.

Q. What Lake north of Ohio?

A. Lake Erie.

LESSON XXXVII.

Q. What Western State does not appear on this map?

A. California.

Q. What four great Rivers flow through the Western States?

A. Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Arkansas.

Q. In what direction do nearly all the Rivers in the Western States flow?

A. Toward the Mississippi.

Q. Name the Western States.

Q. What four large Lakes touch the Western States?

Q. Name the largest four Rivers in the Western States.

Q. What River in Ohio?

Q. What River between Indiana and Illinois?

Q. What States south of Tennessee?

Q. What State east of Kentucky?

LESSON XXXVIII.

Q. What River in Wisconsin?

A. Wisconsin River.

Q. What River in Iowa?

A. Iowa River.

Q. What River flows through Missouri?

A. Missouri River.

[Illustration:  Western Steamboat.]

Q. What River flows through Arkansas?

A. Arkansas River.

Q. What River flows through Tennessee?

A. Tennessee River.

Q. What River in Illinois?