DELAWARE 



1746 



DELAWARE 



twenty-four. A voter must be twenty-one 

 years of age and able to read English and to 

 write his name. Every male citizen with 

 those qualifications is entitled to vote in the 

 election district in which he registers, if he 

 has been a resident of the state one year, of 

 the county, three months, and of the district, or 

 hundred, thirty days, next preceding the elec- 

 tion. 



Judicial powers are vested in six judges, one 

 of whom is chancellor, one chief justice, and 

 the other four associate justices. All are ap- 

 pointed by the governor and confirmed by the 

 senate. 



History. Although the Englishman, Lord 

 de la Warr, sailed into Delaware Bay in 1611, 

 the first settlement in the colony was made 

 by the Dutch, just twenty years later. That 

 trading post, which was situated near the 



19 1 CU_ . 103 



1900 



isao 



I860 

 1650 



1830 

 1820 

 1810 

 1000 

 1790 



4.7 



.37 



Population per square 

 mile, by decades 



3o 



SHOWING INCREASE IN POPULATION 



present site of Lewes, was destroyed by In- 

 dians in 1633. In 1638 the Swedes made an 

 attempt to secure a shore line in America by 

 founding the colony of New Sweden, near the 

 present site of Wilmington and extending as 

 far as Philadelphia. The Dutch resented this 

 invasion of what they considered their prop- 

 erty, and within four years open conflict en- 

 sued. By 1655 the Swedes were driven out, 

 and the Dutch took possession of all that 

 section. When New Amsterdam, the present 

 New York City, passed into English hands in 

 1664, Delaware also came under English con- 

 trol, and contention arose between the Duke 

 of York and Lord Baltimore. In 1683, how- 

 ever, William Penn secured the territory, and 

 for twenty years it was governed as part of 

 Pennsylvania. In 1703 it was granted a sepa- 

 rate assembly, but the authority of Pennsyl- 

 vania's governor was acknowledged until the 

 Revolutionary War. Throughout that war 

 Delaware soldiers rendered noteworthy service. 

 In 1776 an independent state government was 

 formed, and Delaware was the first state to 

 ratify the Federal Constitution in 1787. 

 As a slave-holding state, Delaware furnished 



Research Questions on 

 Delaware 



(An outline suitable for Delaware 

 will be found with the article 

 "State.") 



Why has Delaware fewer navigable 

 streams than it had two centuries ago? 



Do the farmers of the state have to 

 provide for irrigation? 



How many miles of railroad are 

 there to one hundred square miles of 

 area? How does the state compare 

 in this regard with the state which most 

 closely resembles it in size? With Cali- 

 fornia? 



Who was the real discoverer of Dela- 

 ware Bay? Why did he not explore it? 



What qualifications must a man have 

 to enable him to vote in Delaware? 



Where is the great breakwater? How 

 much did it cost, and how long was it 

 in building? 



Who are the "white Indians," and 

 what has tradition to say concerning 

 them? 



What industrial plant in this state 

 outranks in age and size all others of 

 its kind in the country? 



What is meant by "hundreds"? 



Has the state many navigable water- 

 ways? 



What incident in the history of the 

 American flag is marked by a monu- 

 ment in this state? 



How many dollars' worth of manu- 

 factured goods is produced in Delaware 

 for each working day in the year? 



How does the state care for its blind 

 and its deaf and dumb? 



How many times as valuable as its 

 yearly mineral output is its agricul- 

 tural production? The output of its 

 factories? 



To what children within the state 

 does the compulsory education law not 

 apply? 



Give two popular names applied to 

 this state, and explain both. 



In what unusual way was the north- 

 ern-boundary of the state established? 



What do the farms produce that is 

 not counted as agricultural products? 



How many states have a greater pro- 

 portion of their land under cultivation 

 than has Delaware? 



What fruit is most closely associated 

 in the popular mind with this state? Is 

 it the most important now? 



How many cities in this state have a 

 population greater than 10,000? 



How many cities the size of the capi- 

 tal of Delaware would the capital of 

 New York make? 



At what stage has the state arrived 

 on the liquor regulation question? 



How many states have a population 

 smaller than that of Delaware? How 

 many have fewer people to the square 

 mile? 



What proportion of the total agricul- 

 tural output is made up of cereals? 



What engineering project besides the 

 breakwater at Lewes has been of great 

 aid to transportation? 



Who made the first settlement on 

 Delaware territory? When? How did 

 the land come into the possession of 

 England? 



