The Teaching of History 7
22. What were the chief causes?
23. What was the effect on prices?
24. What on wages?
25. Under what President was the independent treasury first
established?
26. Is it in existence to-day?
27. When were greenbacks issued?
28. To what amount?
29. Who was responsible for the issue?
30. Were they legal tender for private debts contracted before
their issue?
31. When was the Resumption Act passed?
32. Are the greenbacks in circulation to-day?
33. What is free silver?
34. What was the "Crime of '73"?
35. What was the "Bland-Allison Act"?
36. What was the Currency Act of 1900?
37. What is Bimetallism?
38. What is meant by "Mint Ratio"?
39. What is meant by "Market Ratio"?
40. What is meant by "Free Coinage"?
41. What is meant by "Gratuitous Coinage"?
42. What is meant by "Standard Money"?
43. With the market ratio at 30 to 1 and the mint ratio at 16 to 1,
which money would tend to disappear from circulation if both
metals are freely coined and made full legal tender?
44. Why is silver not the standard to-day?
45. What is the "Aldrich Plan"?
46. What is a United States bond?
47. Is it a secure investment?
48. What is its average rate of interest?
49. By whom is a national bank chartered?
50. May it issue paper money?
51. When was the first National Banking Act passed?
52. Why?
53. Why should banking business be profitable under the act?
54. What advantage did the Government expect to receive in passing
the act?
55. Are deposits guaranteed?
56. May States emit bills of credit?
57. Is it constitutional for banks chartered by the State to emit
bills of credit?
58. Do they do so to-day?
59. Why?
Obviously as the year advances, the list of questions for review grows
longer. An increasing amount of time should therefore be devoted to work
of this sort.
_They will insure a better acquaintance with great men and women_
The most superficial observation will suffice to convince anyone that
high school graduates know very little about the great men and women of
history. The character sketches suggested earlier in the chapter,
supplemented with occasional reviews, will do much to improve this
condition. These drills may be conducted by asking for brief statements
on the greatest service or the most distinguishing characteristic of the
great men and women met with in the course. The same thing is
accomplished by reversing the process and asking such questions
as,--"Who was the American Fabius"? or "The Great Compromiser"? or the
"Sage of Menlo Park"? etc. Questions on the authorship of great
documents, the founders of institutions, the organizers of movements,
reformers, philosophers, artists, statesmen, generals, accomplish the
same purpose.
_They will be economical of time_
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?
34. Did Lee make more than one attempt to invade the North?
35. Was the "Ohio Idea" ever strong enough to affect legislation?
36. Did Spain have any part in calling out the Monroe Doctrine?
37. Has the United States any control over the debts of Cuba?
38. Has a joint resolution ever been used to acquire territory
other than that included in Texas?
39. Has the United States ever resorted to a tax on incomes?
40. Has the Federal Government ever attempted to restrict the power
of the press?
41. Is it illegal to-day for a railway to give a cheaper rate to
one shipper than to another?
42. Has the Republican party ever reduced the protective tariffs of
the war?
43. Did the Civil Service Act passed in 1883 include postmasters?
44. Did the Wilson-Gorman Act reduce the tariff to a revenue basis?
45. Can a railway engaged solely in intra-state business carry a
case, involving a reduction of their rates by the State
legislature, to the Supreme Court of the United States?
46. Is Utah a part of the Louisiana Purchase?
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