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_b_. Give the princ.i.p.al 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 Ca.n.a.l.

_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 const.i.tutional portions of Webster's great speeches are too hard for children, but his burning words of patriotism may well be learned by the whole cla.s.s. The spoils system may be lightly treated here. It can best be studied in detail later in connection with civil service reform.

[Ill.u.s.tration: THE UNITED STATES IN 1859.]

XI

SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES, 1844-1859

Books for Study and Reading

References.--Scribner's _Popular History_, IV; _McMaster's_ _With the Fathers_, Coffin's _Building the Nation_, 314-324.

Home Readings.--Wright's _Stories of American Progress_; Bolton's _Famous Americans_; Brooks's _Boy Settlers_; Stowe's _Uncle Tom's Cabin_; Lodge's _Webster_.

CHAPTER 31

BEGINNING OF THE ANTISLAVERY AGITATION

[Sidenote: Antislavery sentiments of the Virginians.]

[Sidenote: Slavery in the far South.]

[Sidenote: _Source-book_, 244-248, 251-260.]

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