35. What was the state of the country during Mr. Monroe's adminis tration?

36. When, and for what sum, was Florida ceded to the United States? 37. What is said of the admission of the State of Missouri into the Union? How did the bill pass? What declaration accompanied it?

38. What is related of the visit of General Lafayette? What was done for him by Congress?

39. By whom was Mr. Monroe succeeded? Who were the candidates for the presidency? How many votes did each receive?

40. What was the state of the country during Mr. Adams's administration? What is said of the policy pursued?

41. What is related respecting the Cherokee and Creek Indians?

42. What course did the Indians take? What was afterwards done? 43. What is said of the new tariff law, and the principle of a protective tariff?

44. What is related respecting John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?

SECTION VII.

1. By whom was Mr. Adams succeeded? Fr: what had General Jackson been distinguished?

2. By what was Jackson's administration signalized? What bills did he return with a veto?

3. What measures were adopted in South Carolina?

4. What was then done by President Jackson? What by the governor of South Carolina? What was the next measure of the president? 5. What afterwards took place, and what was the result?

6. What was done by President Jackson soon after he was elected for a second term? What course was taken by Mr. Duane and by Mr. Taney? What was done by the Senate?

7. What is said of the difficulties with France? What was done by France ?

8. What is related respecting the fire in New York?

9. What did the debt of the United States amount to in 1816? When was it all paid off? What surplus revenue was there in the treasury in 1837? What was done with it?

10. What is related respecting the Seminole Indians? What did the expenses of this war amount to?

11. By whom was Jackson succeeded? What is said of Mr Van Buren?

12. What is said of the commercial revulsion, causes, and effects?

13. What course did the banks take? What was the condition of the mercantile classes?

14. How was the government involved in the embarrassment? What measures were taken by the president and by Congress? When did the banks resume specie payment?

15. What is said of the rebellion in Canada? What American citizens took part in it? What was done by the president?

16. By whom was Mr. Van Buren succeeded? What is said of General Harrison?

17. What is related respecting the election of Harrison? Who suc ceeded to the presidency on the death of Harrison? What is said of President Tyler?

18. What acts were passed by Congress in an extra session? What course was taken by the president? What was the consequence?

19. What law was enacted in 1842? What is said of it?

20. What is said respecting the northeastern boundary of the United States? When and how was the matter adjusted?

21. What was one of the last measures of Mr. Tyler's administration! How was Texas annexed, and by what vote?

22. By whom was Tyler succeeded? What is said of the election? 23. What measures were strongly favored by the party that supported Mr. Polk? What course did the president take?

24. What is said of the northwestern boundary? adjusted?.

How was the matter

25. What tariff law was passed on the president's recommendation? 26. What did the war with Mexico grow out of? What is related re specting Texas? What was done by the Mexican minister?

27. What's said of the boundaries of Texas? What were the boundaries contended for by the different parties? What took place on the disputed territory?

28. What was done by the legislature of Texas in 1845? What was then done?

29. Where was General Taylor with his army in March, 1846? Where was he ordered to proceed? What were his next movements?

30. What is said of the Mexican force that was assembled? What was done by General Arista on the 24th of April? What took place on the same day?

31. What was done a few days afterwards by the Mexicans and by General Taylor? What was the result?

32. What is related of the battle of Palo Alto, and the losses? 33. What took place the following day? What next followed?

34. What is said of the effect produced by the news of Captain Thornton's disaster at Washington ? What course did the president take? What did Congress do? What did the whig members attempt to do? By what vote did the bill pass?

35. What is said of the feeling against the war? What vote was passed by the House of Representatives?

36. How was General Taylor's force increased? What measures were taken ?

37. What is related respecting the attack on Monterey ?

38. When was the city assaulted? What was the result? What next followed?

39. What is related respecting General Santa Anna? What course was it expected he would take? What was done, and what was the result?

40. What course did the American government now resolve to take? Who was ordered to take the chief command ?

41. What is said respecting the armistice concluded by General Tay. lor? What then followed? What was done by General Scott?

42. What was now done by General Taylor? What did he soon learn respecting Santa Anna? What course did General Taylor then take? 43. What is related respecting the battle of Buena Vista? What were the losses on both sides?

What is related respecting General Scott's attack on Vera Cruz, and its result?

45. What course did the American army then take? What took place at Cerro Gordo?

46. What was the issue of this assault? What were the losses of the Mexicans, and the Americans?

47. By what was the victory of Cerro Gordo followed? What is said of the state of the army?

48. When and with what force did General Scott march from Puebla ! What two battles were fought? What is stated respecting the battle of Contreras? What of Churubusco? What does General Seott say of the achievements of the American armv?

49. What was the effect of these victories? What course was then adopted?

50. What is said of Mr. Trist, and what was done by him? What was the result, and what followed?

51. What military operation took place the following day? What was the loss on each side?

52. What is said of the storming of the fortress of Chapultepec? What was then done by the Americans?

53. What was then done by the Mexican army, and by the Americans? 54. What was the total loss of General Scott's army in these battles? What was the number of American troops that took the city of Mexico? 55. What expedition was conducted by General Kearny?

56. What is said of his march and conquest? What measures did he then adopt?

57. What is related of Colonel Doniphan? What of the contest at Bracito ?

58. What took place at the Pass of Sacramento? What followed? 59. What is related respecting Colonel Fremont? What was done when the existence of the war with Mexico was heard of?

60. What was done soon after the conquest of the city of Mexico by General Scott? What was the result?

61. What provinces were ceded by Mexico to the United States? What does the territory acquired amount to?

62. What sum did the United States engage to pay to Mexico?

63. What is said of the discovery of gold mines? What consequence has followed this discovery?

64. What is said of the progress and issue of the war? What beneficial results may be hoped from it?

65. By whom was Mr. Polk succeeded? What is said of the election?

TABLES.

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

Which were some of the first settled colonies?

When was Virginia settled, and by whom? New York? &c.
When was the Peace of Paris, and the end of the French war?

When did the Revolutionary War begin? When was peace restored? When was the Declaration of Independence? When was the Constitution adopted?

Who was the first president of the United States? Who have been his

successors?

When did Washington become president? Adams? &c.

EVENTS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

When was the Stamp Act passed? What other events took place be fore the meeting of the first Continental Congress ?

When did the Revolutionary War begin?

What other events took place the same year?

When was the Declaration of Independence made?

What battles in 1776? In 17779 In 1778? In 1779? In 1780' In 1781 ?

When was the surrender at Saratoga? At Yorktown?

When was peace with England, and independence acknowledged?

CHRONOLOGY OF IMPROVEMENTS, &c.

When and where was the first college in the Colonies founded?
What other colleges were founded in the 17th century?
When and where was printing introduced into the Colonies?
When and where was the first newspaper published?
When and where was the first medical school established?
When and where was the first quarto Bible printed?
When was the first census of the United States taken?
When was the first steamboat used on the Hudson?
When was the Erie Canal completed? The Ohio Canal?
When were several important railroads opened?

When was the use of the magnetic telegraph introduced?

DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS.

Most of the men enumerated in the Table, in the 17th century, and some of those in the 18th, were born in England. Some who are classed as warriors were known also as statesmen, and some classed as statesmen were likewise distinguished as military commanders.

The persons enumerated in the fourth column were men of science or literature, physicians, historians, poets, artists, &c.

POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES. - REMARKS.

Which were the thirteen original States? What States added? From what, to what, number did the population of the United States mcrease from 1790 to 1840?

From what, to what, number did the slaves increase in the same time? In about how many years has the population doubled?

How many post-offices were in the United States in 1790? In 1848? When were the first considerable railroads for conveying passengers opened in the United States?

How many miles of railroad were in use in 1849?

CHRONOLOGY.

What is chronology? What is said respecting eras?

1. How did the Greeks compute time? What is said of the Olym piads?

2. How did the Romans reckon time? How was their era designated! 3. What is said of the Christian era? In what year of the world, ac cording to different computations, did the birth of Christ take place? Which is generally adopted in English literature? When did computation from the Christian era begin to be used? What is said of the Roman or Julian year? How great a deviation from the true time had been occasioned in 1582? What was done by Pope Gregory XIII.? When was the New Style first used in England? What change was occasioned by it? 4. What is said of the era of the Hegira?

5. What era, next to the Christian era, is most used in this country?

SACRED HISTORY.

Of what do the historical parts of the Bible chiefly treat? What is the other principal source of information respecting the ancient history of the Israelites? When does the Old Testament history end?

What is said of the descent of the Israelites ?

Why were they called Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews?
What is related respecting their residence in Egypt?
How long did they wander in the wilderness?

How long were they governed by Judges?

When was the most flourishing period of the monarchy?

How long did the sceptre of Judah continue in the family of David? What is said of the tendency of the Israelites to idolatry?

What is said of the history of the Ten Tribes subsequent to their captivity by Shalmaneser? When did the Jews return from Babylon? By whom were they afterwards governed? When were they subjected to the Romans? When was Jerusalem destroyed?

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE KINGDOMS OF ISRAEL and JUDAH

How long did the kingdom of Israel continue undivided? How long did the kingdom of Judah continue ?

What is said of Saul and his reign? David? Solomon?
How many years did Saul reign? David?

&c.

Who was the first king of Judah? Who the last?

What is said of Rehoboam, or of his reign? Abijah? &c.

What prophets flourished between 1100 and 1000 years B. C.?
Between 1000 and 900? Between 900 and 800? &c.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL, OR THE TEN TRIBES.

How long did the kingdom of Israel continue?

Who was the first king? Who the last?

How long did Jeroboam I. reign? What is said of him and his reign! Nadab? &c.

What is said of the history of the Ten Tribes after their captivity?

ERAS OF MODERN HISTORY.

This Table exhibits some of the most important eras in Modern His tory, but the chronology of the rise and fall of states and empires may be best learned from the Chart of History.

When was the New Empire of the West formed? &c.

What eras or events are mentioned in the 9th century? The 10th? &c.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF INVENTIONS.

When was gunpowder invented? Printing? The solar system revived? The telescope invented? Thermometer? Logarithms? The steam-engine? Inoculation? Stereotype printing? Vaccination? The steamboat? Railroads? The magnetic telegraph?

What inventions or improvements were made in the 10th century? In the 11th &c.

THE END.