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_c_. If a bill is vetoed by the President, how can it still be made a law?

---- 310.--_a_. Where did the United States government keep its money?

_b_. How did Jackson try to ruin the United States Bank?

---- 311-313.--_a_. Why did people wish to buy Western lands? How did the favoring the ”pet banks” increase speculation?

_b_. What was done with the surplus? What was the effect of this measure?

_c_. How did Jackson try to stop speculation?

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---- 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?

---- 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.

---- 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?

---- 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.

---- 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?