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There are a vast number of review questions answerable with yes or no.  The student’s knowledge of the subject may be quickly discovered and a rapid review conducted by a series of such questions.  The following list on American history will illustrate the method:—­

     1.  Was Cromwell’s colonial policy helpful to the American colonies?

     2.  Did the Revolution of 1688 have any effect on the colonies?

     3.  Were the Huguenots excluded from Canada?

     4.  Were the Writs of Assistance used in England?

     5.  Did America ever have a theocracy?

     6.  Did the rule of 1756 affect the people of the colonies?

     7.  Was the Sugar Act legal?

     8.  Was there any effort to amend the Articles of Confederation?

     9.  Does funding a debt lessen it?

    10.  Did Hamilton’s measures tend to centralize power?

    11.  Did the members of the Constitutional Convention exceed their
        instructions?

    12.  Is a cabinet provided for in the Constitution?

    13.  Does the Constitution of the United States prevent a State from
        establishing a religion?

    14.  Is it possible for a State to repudiate its debts?

    15.  Does the constitutional provision for uniform duties protect
        the Territories?

    16.  Was impressment practiced in England?

    17.  Did the Whigs favor internal improvements?

    18.  Did the North favor the Force Bill of 1833?

    19.  Did Massachusetts favor the Tariff of 1816?

    20.  Did the Republican party stand for the abolition of slavery in
        1860?

    21.  Did the Emancipation Proclamation free all the slaves in the
        United States?

    22.  Did the working-men of England favor the South during the Civil
        War?

    23.  Was it necessary for the South to resort to the draft?

    24.  Could a man in 1860 consistently accept both the Dred Scott
        decision and the doctrine of popular sovereignty?

    25.  Did Lincoln’s assassination have any effect on the
        reconstruction policy?

    26.  Does the Federal Constitution compel negro suffrage?

    27.  Was the Anaconda System successful?

    28.  Was a President of the United States ever impeached?

    29.  Were the claims for indirect damages in the Alabama claims
        allowed?

    30.  Did Calhoun favor the Compromise of 1850?

    31.  Did Thaddeus Stevens favor the Fifteenth Amendment to the
        Constitution?

    32.  Did Lincoln favor the social equality of the white and black
        races?

    33.  Did Grant favor the Tenure of Office Act?