c.  How did Jackson try to stop speculation?

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Sec.Sec. 314, 315.—­a.  Why did “prices go down with a rush”?

b.  Describe the Independent Treasury plan.  Where is the nation’s money kept to-day?

Sec.Sec. 316, 317.—­a.  State briefly the reasons for the split in the Republican party.  Had you lived in 1840, for whom would you have voted? voted?  Why?

b.  Give an account of the early life of Harrison.

c.  Describe the campaign of 1840, and compare it with the last presidential campaign.

Sec.Sec. 318, 319.—­a.  What party came into power in 1841?  Under the spoils system what would naturally follow?

b.  To what party did Tyler belong?

c.  Why was it difficult for the government to carry on its business without a bank or a treasury?

Sec.Sec. 320.—­a.  What dispute had long existed with Great Britain?

b.  Why did the British object to the boundary line laid down in the Treaty of 1783?  Show on a map how the matter was finally settled.

Sec.Sec. 321, 322.—­a.  Explain carefully the application of electricity made by Morse.  Of what advantage has the telegraph been to the United States?

b.  How did the McCormick reaper solve the difficulty in wheat growing?  What were the results of this invention?

c.  Compare its influence upon our history with that of the cotton gin.

GENERAL QUESTIONS

a.  Why is the period covered by this division so important?

b.  Give the principal events since the Revolution which made Western expansion possible.

c.  Explain, using a chart, the changes in parties since 1789.

d.  What were the good points in Jackson’s administration?  The mistakes?

TOPICS FOR SPECIAL WORK

a.  Select some one invention between 1790 and 1835, describe it, explain the need for it, and the results which have followed from it.

b.  The Erie Canal.

c.  The career of Webster, Clay, or Calhoun.

d.  Life and works of any one of the literary men of this period.

e.  The Ashburton Treaty, with a map.

SUGGESTIONS TO THE TEACHER

The personality of Andrew Jackson, representing as he does a new element in social and political life, deserves a careful study.  The financial policy of his administration is too difficult for children.  With brief comparisons with present-day conditions the study of this subject can be confined to what is given in the text.  Jackson’s action at the time of the nullification episode may well be compared with Buchanan’s inaction in 1860-61.  The constitutional portions of Webster’s great speeches are too hard for children, but his burning words of patriotism may well be learned by the whole class.  The spoils system may be lightly treated here.  It can best be studied in detail later in connection with civil service reform.